Job Specifications
At Mustard Systems, we leverage statistical modeling to dive into sports events and help us make informed predictions about future outcomes. By utilising our unique datasets, advanced statistical models, and custom-built software, we strive to accurately forecast sports results.
We're looking for a Senior Computer Vision Engineer to join our Data Team and help build the next generation of cricket analytics at Mustard. You'll be responsible for extracting high-value data from both historical and live cricket footage, ensuring the data is accurate, scalable, and ready for our Quant team to turn into powerful insights.
As the senior computer vision expert in the company, you'll lead technical decisions, define best practices, and shape the future of CV at Mustard. You'll work closely with our Cricket Team, who have built a manual data collection system, and your work will be central to automating and elevating the entire pipeline.
If you love solving complex CV problems and want to apply your skills to the world of sports analytics, this is the role for you.
What You'll Do
Build Cricket Video Extraction Systems
Develop computer vision models and pipelines that extract key data points from cricket broadcasts and replays
Work across high-variation video sources, including different angles, inconsistent framing, and broadcast-quality footage
Ensure that events in replay segments are not double-counted or falsely captured
Ensure Data Quality & Verification
Build a robust framework to validate automatically extracted data against manually collected ground-truth data
Work with the team to align definitions, rules, and edge cases
Develop metrics, tests, and tools that ensure confidence and reliability in all extracted outputs
Scale Systems Across the Entire Cricket Archive
Improve pipelines to support new data points and higher accuracy over time
Scale systems to process large volumes of historical footage with consistent quality
Identify opportunities to increase automation and reduce manual effort across the business
Requirements
Must-Haves
Strong experience building and deploying computer vision models in production
Expertise in areas such as object detection, tracking, pose estimation, action recognition, or temporal event detection
Confidence working autonomously and leading and owning technical decisions
Ability to collaborate with Quant researchers, cricket domain experts, and data engineers
A pragmatic mindset—balancing research exploration with delivery
Challenges You'll Tackle
Cricket video presents a unique set of real-world challenges. You should be excited about solving problems like:
Replay handling: ensuring the system doesn't double-capture replayed events
Variable camera angles: handling unpredictable broadcast camera changes
Incomplete coverage: extracting meaningful data even when balls aren't shown clearly
Broadcast-quality footage: dealing with noise, compression, zoom levels, and motion blur
Benefits
Why join Mustard Systems?
Hybrid working environment. We're in the office every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and work from home every Wednesday and Friday
Work on cutting-edge systems in a competitive and innovative field
Collaborate with a smart, driven team, where your contributions directly impact business performance
Opportunity to drive the company's technical direction and double its revenue in the next three years
Comprehensive benefits, including:
Competitive salary and significant bonus potential
Enhanced pension match with salary sacrifice option
Health insurance and life assurance
Sabbatical leave after five years
33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays)
About the Company
We are a young fast growing company in London W6. We develop pricing models and use those models to provide various services to our clients who include renowned licensed bookmakers and professional gamblers.
Mustard Systems was founded in 2014 having spun out of a highly successful quantitative research and software business. With the experience from this great heritage combined with a young, aspiring and bright team, we are very well positioned to take advantage of market developments in both the short and long terms.
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