Senior Software Engineer, Edge ML & Vision for Sports

Catapult Sports; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Catapult is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London (hybrid) to advance the Perch camera system. You will write Python/C++ across devices and services, improving how we collect and analyze performance data at scale for real sports teams.

You’ll work on 3D tracking, ML model deployment, and low-latency processing, collaborating with embedded, data, and applications teams to deliver robust features in production.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• Strong skill in Python and backend engineering.
• Working knowledge of C++ or a strong reason to be effective in performance-critical code.
• Experience with data-intensive systems, distributed systems, parallel processing, or efficient data pipelines.
• Exposure to ML, ML infrastructure, signal processing, real-time systems, computer vision, or related applied technical areas.
• A track record of shipping reliable software, not only prototypes.
• Strong debugging skills and the ability to find the root cause of complex system behavior.
• Clear communication and good judgment when tradeoffs are not simple.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and the desire to learn new technical areas.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement algorithms for 3D object tracking, segmentation, and motion recognition on embedded hardware.
• Train and iterate on ML models - from dataset curation through training, evaluation, and deployment to edge devices.
• Help bring ML, computer vision, or signal-processing systems into production with tight performance constraints
• Build reliable application features and services that customers use in real environments.
• Analyze production data to find system limits, product issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate closely with the embedded platform team on model optimization and inference performance, and with the applications team on how tracking data becomes product features.

Skills

Python

Backend engineering

C++

ML infrastructure

Computer vision

Data-intensive systems

Real-time systems

Debugging

Communication

Curiosity

Job description

Catapult is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London (hybrid) to advance the Perch camera system. You will write Python/C++ across devices and services, improving how we collect and analyze performance data at scale for real sports teams.

You’ll work on 3D tracking, ML model deployment, and low-latency processing, collaborating with embedded, data, and applications teams to deliver robust features in production.