Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer (m/f/d)
Sportradar1 day ago
Vienna, AustriaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Meet with department leads and teams to understand current processes and identify business problems.
- Frame ambiguous situations into defined problems, scope, success criteria, and delivery plans.
- Simplify business processes and determine where AI is 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 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.
- Ability to navigate organisational complexity and competing priorities.
- Strong problem-finding and analytical skills, including experience simplifying complex processes or systems.
- Experience building and operating production systems and 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 a major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Consulting or internal-consulting experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Collaborative international environment with social events and team-building activities.
- Professional and personal development plans, career framework opportunities, and online training videos.
- Inclusive community groups including Women in Tech and Pride groups.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, Calm, and Reulay apps.
- Flexible working hours.
- Based in Vienna, with some travel between Sportradar offices potentially required.
- Office-first hybrid/on-site work model with team members working in the office four days per week; location-based exemptions may apply.
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.