Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer (m/f/d)
Sportradar2 days ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Meet with department leads and teams to understand current workflows and identify business problems.
- Frame ambiguous situations into defined problems, scope, success criteria, and delivery plans.
- Simplify business processes and determine where AI is and is not appropriate.
- Navigate stakeholders, approvals, and competing priorities to maintain delivery momentum.
- Own technical strategy and architecture for internal engagements.
- Design and deliver production LLM and agentic systems from discovery through production.
- Implement retrieval, tool use, context and prompt design, guardrails, and observability.
- Define and run evaluations, test sets, regression suites, and monitoring.
- 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 and technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently with little supervision on ambiguous work and navigate organizational complexity.
- Strong problem-finding and analytical skills, including experience simplifying complex processes or systems.
- Experience building and operating production systems with strong system design skills.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents, including prompting, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience with data pipelines and at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Consulting or internal-consulting experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Based in Warsaw with some travel between Sportradar offices potentially required.
- Fully on-site working model with employees in the office five days per week; certain location-based exemptions may apply.
- Flexible working hours.
- Professional and personal development plans, career framework opportunities, and online training videos.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, Calm and Reulay apps, social events, teambuilding, and inclusive employee communities.
- Technical assessment, two technical interviews, and a final feedback and offer stage are part of the recruitment process.
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.