Job Description

Based in Battersea, London, LV8 Sport is a privately funded sports-tech startup, leveraging Computer Vision and Machine Learning to deliver a unique data-led approach to performance analysis across a select group of sports. Our first product, Grow Football, is an AR-based iOS application which provides players of all levels with detailed analysis of their performance, and is launching this summer with a top European football club.

Due to one of our data scientists moving into a neuroscience research position, we have a vacancy available for a Junior Data Scientist, starting in July/August of this year.

This is a permanent position, with hybrid working and a competitive starting salary, and an additional annual bonus.

Job Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Training, testing and optimising object detection, computer vision and image analysis algorithms for iOS deployment.
• Developing and evaluating quantitative scoring metrics from video and pose estimation data.
• Preparing and processing imaging data for sure in model training.
• Building and maintaining metrics data processing pipelines to improve processes.
• Remaining up to date with current state-of-the-art research and literature in ML and CV.

Job Requirements

Successful candidates should have:

• Good knowledge and understanding in machine learning; particularly object detection, image segmentation, pose estimation and optical flow.
• Demonstratable experience applying analytical skills to problems such as data collection, analysis, visualisation, statistics.
• Experience in ML frameworks Tensorflow/Pytorch.
• Experience training custom deep learning networks and pre-trained CV models such as YOLO or MobileNet.
• Experience deploying models in iOS-compatible mobile machine learning frameworks (Apple CoreML, Google MLKit).
• Strong programming skills in Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib).
• Proficiency with good software engineering practices and versioning control (Git).
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills.•An interest in sports analytics and/or biomechanics.
• Previous iOS development is a nice-to-have.