Description
We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting.
As Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you work like an internal consultant: you are placed in a department or business unit, talk with the people there, find the real problems, cut through complexity, simplify how work is done, and then build and ship LLM and agent-based solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Talk with colleagues in your department to understand workflows, pain points and data.
- Identify problems worth solving and break unclear or cluttered situations into clear, manageable steps.
- Streamline and simplify processes, and propose where an AI solution makes sense and where it does not.
- Work with several stakeholders and competing priorities, and keep your work moving pragmatically.
- Build, test and deploy LLM-powered applications and agents, from prototype to production.
- Implement retrieval (RAG), tool integrations, prompts and context handling.
- Build and run evaluations (test sets, automated checks, quality dashboards) and use the results to improve solutions.
- Build and maintain data pipelines that feed these systems.
- Plan your own work, give regular updates and document solutions.
Requirements:
- Around 2+ years of software engineering or applied ML experience, or equivalent project experience.
- Clear communication with non-technical colleagues; able to explain technical topics simply.
- Self-motivation and the ability to work independently with little supervision.
- Pragmatic approach to organisational complexity and competing priorities.
- Structured approach to finding problems and simplifying complexity.
- Solid Python and software engineering fundamentals (testing, version control, APIs).
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and a project using RAG or agents, including some evaluation.
- Familiarity with SQL or data pipelines and with a cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
Nice to have:
- Consulting, internship or stakeholder-facing project experience.
Working model: Based in Leipzig. Some travel between Sportradar offices may be required.
Our Offer:
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and the US) including various social events and teambuilding.
- Ability to shape your own workday and career via a clearly defined professional and personal development plan.
- Opportunity to develop yourself within an inspiring and fast-growing company with our Career framework possibilities.
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme.
- Calm and Reulay app (managing stress, maintaining focus, improving sleep, building resilience).
- Online training videos.
- Flexible working hours.