Senior Deep Learning Engineer

SumerSports

12h • $155,000 - $185,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Deep Learning Engineer on the Football Modeling side, you'll work closely with our research team on player tracking data, evaluation, and forecasting models. You'll be a senior voice in the room on modeling decisions. We believe good research is less about having the perfect idea and more about building a rigorous system for testing ideas. Ideas are plentiful. The real work is designing experiments, learning quickly, and following the evidence.

Requirements

• Track record shipping deep-learning models at scale. Transformer, sequence, or multimodal architectures.
• Strong fluency with PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning, distributed training, attention variants, and training-dynamics debugging.
• Real football expertise. Specific opinions about catch probability, EPA limitations, route trees, and coverage.
• Senior IC drive. You take an ambiguous problem and come back with a scoped path.
• Deep evaluation instincts. You know how to actually tell if a model works.
• AI-native. Builds skills, loops, and tooling to accelerate research throughput.
• Stays current with research. Papers, releases, new techniques.
• Comfortable being a senior voice in a room of senior voices.
• Clear communication with non-DL audiences

Responsibilities

• Contribute to entire modeling lifecycle including training, testing, and evaluation.
• Take one or two flagship modeling threads and drive them from problem definition through evaluation to production.
• Be a senior peer to the existing research team. Push back, share judgment, build consensus on what to try next.
• Work with football subject-matter experts on feature design and label discipline.
• Mentor mid-level engineers.
• Build out the experimentation harness so the team can run more ideas faster.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and Bonus Plan
• Comprehensive health insurance plan
• Retirement savings plan (401k) with company match
• Remote working environment
• A flexible, unlimited time off policy
• Generous paid holiday schedule - 13 in total including Monday after the Super Bowl

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed