Computer Vision Engineer

Mustard Systems Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

Competitive salary & significant bonus

Enhanced pension matching with salary‑

Health insurance & life assurance

Sabbatical leave after five years

33 days annual leave

Job summary

Mustard Systems Ltd. is seeking a Senior Computer Vision Engineer to lead the cricket analytics data pipeline. You will develop CV models to extract key data from cricket broadcasts, ensure quality against ground truth, and scale systems to process large archives. You’ll shape technical decisions and collaborate with the Quant team and cricket specialists.

You’ll join the Data Team in a hybrid setup, with modern tools and a focus on delivering reliable, scalable analytics for cricket insights.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and deploying computer vision models in production.
• Expertise in object detection, tracking, pose estimation, action recognition, or temporal event detection.
• Ability to work autonomously and lead technical decisions.
• Strong collaboration with Quant researchers, cricket domain experts, and data engineers.
• A pragmatic mindset balancing research with delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build cricket video extraction systems to pull key data from broadcasts and replays.
• Ensure data quality by validating extracted data against ground truth and aligning definitions.
• Scale pipelines to handle large volumes of historical footage with consistent quality.

Skills

CV models production

Object detection

Tracking

Pose estimation

Temporal event detection

Autonomous decision-making

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

At Mustard Systems, we leverage statistical modeling to dive into sports events and help us make informed predictions about future outcomes. By utilising our unique datasets, advanced statistical models, and custom-built software, we strive to accurately forecast sports results.

We’re looking for a Senior Computer Vision Engineer to join our Data Team and help build the next generation of cricket analytics at Mustard. You’ll be responsible for extracting high-value data from both historical and live cricket footage, ensuring the data is accurate, scalable, and ready for our Quant team to turn into powerful insights.

As the senior computer vision expert in the company, you’ll lead technical decisions, define best practices, and shape the future of CV at Mustard. You’ll work closely with our Cricket Team, who have built a manual data collection system, and your work will be central to automating and elevating the entire pipeline.

If you love solving complex CV problems and want to apply your skills to the world of sports analytics, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do

Build Cricket Video Extraction Systems

• Develop computer vision models and pipelines that extract key data points from cricket broadcasts and replays.
• Work across high-variation video sources, including different angles, inconsistent framing, and broadcast-quality footage.
• Ensure that events in replay segments are not double-counted or falsely captured.

Ensure Data Quality & Verification

• Build a robust framework to validate automatically extracted data against manually collected ground-truth data.
• Work with the team to align definitions, rules, and edge cases.
• Develop metrics, tests, and tools that ensure confidence and reliability in all extracted outputs.

Scale Systems Across the Entire Cricket Archive

• Improve pipelines to support new data points and higher accuracy over time.
• Scale systems to process large volumes of historical footage with consistent quality.
• Identify opportunities to increase automation and reduce manual effort across the business.

Must-Haves

• Strong experience building and deploying computer vision models in production.
• Expertise in areas such as object detection, tracking, pose estimation, action recognition, or temporal event detection.
• Confidence working autonomously and leading and owning technical decisions.
• Ability to collaborate with Quant researchers, cricket domain experts, and data engineers.
• A pragmatic mindset—balancing research exploration with delivery.

Challenges You’ll Tackle

Cricket video presents a unique set of real-world challenges. You should be excited about solving problems like:

• Replay handling: ensuring the system doesn’t double-capture replayed events.
• Variable camera angles: handling unpredictable broadcast camera changes.
• Incomplete coverage: extracting meaningful data even when balls aren’t shown clearly.
• Broadcast-quality footage: dealing with noise, compression, zoom levels, and motion blur.

Why join Mustard Systems?

• Hybrid working environment. We're in the office every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and work from home every Wednesday and Friday
• Work on cutting-edge systems in a competitive and innovative field.
• Collaborate with a smart, driven team, where your contributions directly impact business performance.
• Opportunity to drive the company’s technical direction and double its revenue in the next three years.

Comprehensive benefits, including:

• Competitive salary and significant bonus potential

• Enhanced pension match with salary sacrifice option.

• Health insurance and life assurance.

• Sabbatical leave after five years.

• 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays).