Lead ML Scientist

Data Science @Dream Sports:

Data Science at Dream Sports comprises seasoned data scientists thriving to drive value with data across all our initiatives. The team has developed state-of-the-art solutions for forecasting and optimization, data-driven risk prevention systems, Causal Inference and Recommender Systems to enhance product and user experience.

We are a team of Machine Learning Scientists and Research Scientists with a portfolio of projects ranges from production ML systems that we conceptualize, build, support and innovate upon, to longer term research projects with potential game-changing impact for Dream Sports.

This is a unique opportunity for highly motivated candidates to work on real-world applications of machine learning in the sports industry, with access to state-of-the-art resources, infrastructure, and data from multiple sources streaming from 250 million users and contributing to our collaboration with Columbia Dream Sports AI Innovation Center.

Your Role:

• Transforming problems into analysis plans for data telemetry, metrics, predictive modeling, reporting, and experimentation
• Applying or developing tools and pipelines to efficiently collect, clean, and prepare massive volumes of data for analysis
• Developing processes and tools that monitor, analyze and continuously improve model performance and data accuracy
• Leading in solving technical problems, creatively meeting product objectives and developing best practices
• Developing predictive algorithms that analyze large scale datatsets and recommend data-driven solutions 
• Monitoring the performance of Junior Data Scientists and provide practical guidance as needed
• Collaborating with stakeholders across Data Science, Engineering & Product Management teams to design and implement software solutions for scientific problems

Qualifiers:

• 6+ years of experience in a Machine Learning Scientist or a similar role
• Proven track record of successfully designing and implementing machine learning solutions in a production environment
• Experience in machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) and programming languages (Python, R)

About Dream Sports:

Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with 250 million users, housing brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier sports content & commerce platform and DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform.

Dream Sports is based in Mumbai and has a workforce of close to 1,000 ‘Sportans’. Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports’ vision is to ‘Make Sports Better’ for fans through the confluence of sports and technology.

For more information: https://dreamsports.group/

Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform with 220 million users playing fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball, on it. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company and has partnerships with several national & international sports bodies and cricketers.