Senior Software Engineer, Sports AI
Genius Sports3 days ago
Base Salary
$160k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate real-time streaming systems that convert live sports broadcasts into structured events, attributes, and insights.
- Ingest and synchronize signals from video, audio, commentary, and data feeds under real-world latency and reliability constraints.
- Integrate modern AI models into production systems, including multi-step pipelines where model outputs are composed, validated, and refined.
- Design and implement evaluation and observability frameworks to measure system quality, including offline benchmarks, real-time metrics, and regression testing.
- Develop mechanisms for identifying and handling uncertainty in model outputs, such as confidence scoring and validation checks.
- Own systems end-to-end from early prototypes through production, making key architectural decisions around scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate closely with product and data partners to shape, prioritize, and ship high-impact systems.
- Mentor engineers and help establish best practices for building and operating applied AI systems in production.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade software systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, testing, observability, and performance.
- Experience building streaming, data-intensive, and/or distributed systems with real-time constraints.
- Proven ability to design scalable systems that are robust under real-world conditions.
- Ability to evaluate system quality beyond traditional metrics.
- Product-minded: able to translate ambiguous problems into practical, high-impact solutions.
- Strong interest in building AI-powered features or systems and keeping up with the latest generative AI progress.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, iterative environments with evolving requirements.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on an annualized range of $160,000 - $230,000 USD.
- Eligible to participate in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
- Office-first culture with opportunities for collaboration and learning.
- Hybrid working models depending on role and location.
- Commitment to employee wellbeing and career growth.