Senior Data Scientist - Football

SkillCorner, a sports-technology company that leverages artificial intelligence and computer vision to enhance decision-making in professional football. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead modeling projects, develop machine-learning and deep-learning models, and collaborate with various stakeholders to turn football questions into robust solutions. You should have extensive experience in data science, machine learning, and deep learning, as well as a strong understanding of football. The position is based in Paris, France, with the possibility of remote work within European time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead modelling projects end to end, from problem definition and data exploration through development, evaluation, deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Develop and improve machine-learning and deep-learning models for player evaluation, tactical analysis, predictive metrics and other applications involving player and team behaviour.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, analysts, football specialists, business stakeholders and professional clubs to turn football questions and client requirements into robust solutions.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience applying data science, machine learning and deep learning to complex real-world problems, with strong Python skills for analysis, modelling and production-oriented development.
• Direct experience working with football tracking and event data, or comparable high-volume, high-frequency and spatiotemporal datasets, with a clear understanding of their practical challenges.
• Experience taking models from research into reliable production systems, including ownership of complete pipelines from data preparation and feature engineering through deployment, monitoring and maintenance. Attention to detail and familiarity with cloud providers and production infrastructure are expected.
• A strong understanding of football and the ability to connect technical work to meaningful questions involving player roles, tactics, phases of play or team behaviour.
• The ability to work effectively with ambiguity, make defensible modelling choices, assess uncertainty and balance technical ambition with pragmatic delivery.
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to explain complex analyses, modelling choices and limitations to technical colleagues, business stakeholders and professional football clubs. French would be an advantage.
• A collaborative and proactive approach, with the ability to lead projects independently, make informed trade-offs, share ideas early and support less experienced colleagues.

Preferred

• Experience with football analytics or presenting analytical work to football clubs.

Location

Paris, France preferred, with regular visits to our Paris office. Remote work is possible within European time zones.