Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SumerSports is a football intelligence technology company providing data-driven products and insights to football fans, NFL clubs, and the NCAA. The Senior Data Scientist will focus on evaluating and improving the quality of football machine learning models, building testing and experimentation tools, collaborating with football subject-matter experts, and identifying model regressions before deployment.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to model evaluation across our football models. Drive one or two threads end-to-end
- Build and extend the tooling we use to test, compare, and ship models
- Work with football subject-matter experts to design evaluation that reflects how the models will actually get used
- Catch silent regressions before they ship
- Pushback when a stakeholder asks for a metric that doesn't measure what they think
- Build the experimentation harness that lets the team test many ideas fast
Skills
- Strong statistical foundations. Calibration (reliability and resolution), bootstrapping, inter-rater reliability
- Track record contributing to model evaluation on a production ML team
- Production ML pipeline experience. You've seen schema drift, label noise, and leakage
- You build tooling, not just consume it
- Self-starter. Takes strategic direction and shapes their own path
- AI-native. Builds skills, loops, and tooling to accelerate evaluation throughput
- Stays current with research. Papers, releases, new techniques
- Domain absorption capacity. You've gotten fluent on a complex domain (sports, finance, biotech, medical) on a prior job
- Football or sports analytics exposure
- Experience evaluating tracking-data models
- Skill scores for probabilistic forecasts (Brier, etc.)
- Deep-learning fluency to read training code
- Human-in-the-loop ML experience
Benefits
- Bonus Plan
- Comprehensive health insurance plan
- Retirement savings plan (401k) with company match
- Remote working environment
- A flexible, unlimited time off policy
- Generous paid holiday schedule - 13 in total including Monday after the Super Bowl
- Annual performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans may also be included in the total compensation package
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