Sports AI Engineer — Real-Time ML (Hybrid London)

Animo Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Animo Group is partnering with a cutting-edge sports tech company in London to hire an AI Engineer. The role focuses on building and deploying production-grade AI/ML models for real-time sports performance analysis.

You will collaborate with sport scientists, design robust inference pipelines, and manage end-to-end deployment from edge to cloud, ensuring robust, scalable and timely analytics.

Qualifications

• Proven algorithm development experience including image/video processing in production.
• Experience deploying ML models in real-world, high-stakes environments.
• Strong design skills for time-series data, optimization, and performance evaluation.
• Solid DevOps experience: CI/CD, containerisation (Docker) and cloud-based deployment.
• Strong Python skills with data processing libraries (Pandas, OpenCV).
• Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, testing, code review, documentation.
• Milestone of MSc or PhD in a related field.
• Experience in start-up or fast-paced, high-autonomy environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test & deploy production-ready AI/ML algorithms for sports analysis.
• Collaborate with sport scientists to translate motion into actionable models.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML model delivery.
• Monitor models for performance drift and system health; implement alerts and retraining.
• Ensure real-time performance of deployed models and robust inference pipelines.
• Build scalable inference workflows across edge and cloud platforms.
• Own model deployment infra using AWS services and IaC tooling.

Skills

Image processing

Time-series data

ML deployment

DevOps

Python

Deep learning

CI/CD

Docker

OpenCV

Education

MSc or PhD in related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

AWS

Pandas

OpenCV

Job description

Animo Group is partnering with a cutting-edge sports tech company in London to hire an AI Engineer. The role focuses on building and deploying production-grade AI/ML models for real-time sports performance analysis.

You will collaborate with sport scientists, design robust inference pipelines, and manage end-to-end deployment from edge to cloud, ensuring robust, scalable and timely analytics.