Team Lead – Computer Vision, Basketball Tracking
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026.
Join SkillCorner, a global leader in sports data analytics. As the Team Lead for our Basketball Tracking team, you will lead a team of data scientists, own the quality and scalability of our basketball tracking pipeline, and shape the technical roadmap. You will split your time between technical leadership, people and project management, and your own contributions to the codebase. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of sports analytics.
Missions
- Assumer la responsabilité de l'ensemble du pipeline de suivi du basketball, de la prise de décision architecturale aux modèles, aux données, à l'infrastructure d'entraînement et d'évaluation.
- Diriger la recherche et le développement, surveiller l'état de l'art, analyser les performances et transformer les nouvelles idées en améliorations concrètes.
- Organiser et diriger l'équipe à travers des réunions régulières, planifier et prioriser le travail de l'équipe, suivre les progrès et anticiper les besoins à venir.
Profil recherché
### What we’re looking for* A graduate degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, mathematics or a related field
* 6+ years of hands-on experience in computer vision with deep learning, including production systems
* Proven experience delivering detection, tracking or recognition pipelines to production, not only research prototypes
* At least 2 years of management experience, leading two or more permanent team members, and experience contributing to a technical roadmap
* Deep learning expertise in areas such as people tracking, re-identification, people, face and object recognition, camera calibration, body pose estimation and action recognition
* Experience owning a complete pipeline and assembling several algorithms into one reliable system
* A strong grasp of the theory behind the models you build, and the judgment to choose between approaches
* The ability to drive technical decisions, explain trade-offs and align stakeholders
* Strong Python for ML: clean, tested, deployable code, with PyTorch or TensorFlow and OpenCV
* Hands-on experience with AWS workflows and Docker
* Excellent communication skills in English
### Nice to have
* French: a strong plus, as the team you will manage is French-speaking
* Experience with multi-object tracking and re-identification in crowded scenes, or with sports or broadcast video
* Experience with camera calibration, homography estimation or 3D geometry
* Experience running ML pipelines at scale in the cloud (GPU inference, batch processing)
* Notions of MLOps and model optimization
* Experience using LLM-based agents to speed up development, debugging or support
* Publications at top computer vision or ML venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS)
* Knowledge of, or a genuine interest in, basketball
### Why join us
* Real impact: your work ships to production and is used by more than 350 professional teams worldwide
* Hard, exciting problems: state-of-the-art computer vision on real broadcast video, at scale
* Ownership: lead your own team and shape both the product and the way we work
* A great team: passionate people at the crossroads of AI and sport, with a tech team in the heart of Paris