Job Description
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:Implementing appropriate success metrics, driving rapid experimentation of new POCs and presenting the impacts to stakeholdersDriving knowledge sharing sessions within and across teams while maintaining continuous feedback channels with teammates to ensure building growth pathsOwning respective services by following best practices in service maintainability, understanding and acting on the risks and opportunities involvedPrioritising roadmaps while balancing impact, effort, resources and team's requirements to complete initiatives within committed timelinesDeveloping and evaluating predictive and prescriptive models using appropriate mathematical methods like supervised and unsupervised learning, frequentist statistics, estimation methodsDesigning large-scale ML systems with advanced ML frameworks like TensorFlow/Keras/PyTorch for training and inferencing at scaleEnsuring cross team alignment towards business/project goals by driving visibility of initiatives, managing conflicts, and highlighting implementation blocksQualifiers:6 - 10 years of experience in building and maintaining ML solutions at scaleProficient in predictive modelling (ML,DL/RL) and experimentation/causal inference methodsAtleast 1 year of experience in managing team of data scientists and handling cross functional stakeholdersProven track record of designing end to end ML systems which can handle the scaleAbout 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.
Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform with 230 million users playing fantasy cricket, football, basketball & hockey 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.
