Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer (m/f/d)
Sportradar1 day ago
Vienna, AustriaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Meet with department leads and teams to understand current workflows and identify business problems.
- Define problems, scope, success criteria, and delivery plans for ambiguous internal engagements.
- Simplify business processes and determine where AI is and is not appropriate.
- Navigate stakeholders, approvals, and competing priorities to keep delivery moving.
- Own technical strategy and architecture for internal use cases.
- Design and deliver production LLM and agentic systems, including retrieval, tool use, context and prompt design, guardrails, and observability.
- Define and run evaluations, test sets, regression suites, and monitoring to guide system design and model choices.
- Mentor colleagues, review designs, and share reusable engineering patterns.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior work with business stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills with business, technical, and senior stakeholder audiences.
- Ability to work independently with little supervision on ambiguous work.
- Ability to navigate organizational complexity and competing priorities.
- Strong problem-finding, analytical, and process-simplification skills.
- Experience building and operating production systems and strong system design expertise.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents, including prompting, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation.
- Strong Python skills and experience with data pipelines and a major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Consulting or internal-consulting experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Based in Leipzig with some travel between Sportradar offices potentially required.
- Fully on-site working model with employees working in the office five days per week; location-based exemptions may apply.
- Flexible working hours.
- Professional and personal development plans, career framework opportunities, and online training videos.
- Collaborative international environment with social events, team-building, and employee communities including Women in Tech and Pride groups.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme and access to Calm and Reulay apps.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Sportradar
Sportradar builds data, odds, and integrity services that power sportsbooks, iGaming operators, media companies, and sports federations. Its products include real-time sports data feeds, trading tools, virtual sports, integrity monitoring, and digital content, sold via SaaS and data-rights partnerships. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in St. Gallen, the NASDAQ-listed company covers more than a million events annually and works with organizations such as the NBA and UEFA.