Sports Computer Vision Engineer: Real-Time Player & Ball Tracking

Ball2Data Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Ball2Data Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced individual to build computer vision systems for sports analysis. The role involves developing models for player tracking and ball detection, as well as extracting insights from real match footage.

Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in computer vision, deep learning, and Python. The position offers an opportunity to work on impactful projects that merge technology with sports.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in computer vision and deep learning.
• Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with object detection, tracking and pose estimation.
• Familiarity with biomechanical analysis from video.
• Understanding of video processing and OpenCV.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve computer vision pipelines for sports footage analysis.
• Develop player tracking, ball detection and action classification models.
• Extract biomechanical data from video.
• Build pose estimation pipelines for athlete movement analysis.
• Process and analyse real match footage across multiple sports.
• Train and evaluate deep learning models on sports datasets.
• Collaborate with the annotation and physiotherapy teams.
• Optimise models for real-time performance.

Skills

Computer vision

Deep learning

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Object detection

Tracking

Pose estimation

Biomechanical analysis

OpenCV

Tools

MediaPipe

OpenPose

Job description

Ball2Data Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced individual to build computer vision systems for sports analysis. The role involves developing models for player tracking and ball detection, as well as extracting insights from real match footage.

Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in computer vision, deep learning, and Python. The position offers an opportunity to work on impactful projects that merge technology with sports.