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:

• Implementing appropriate success metrics, driving rapid experimentation of new POCs and presenting the impacts to stakeholders
• Driving knowledge sharing sessions within and across teams while maintaining continuous feedback channels with teammates to ensure building growth paths
• Owning respective services by following best practices in service maintainability, understanding and acting on the risks and opportunities involved
• Prioritising roadmaps while balancing impact, effort, resources and team's requirements to complete initiatives within committed timelines
• Developing and evaluating predictive and prescriptive models using appropriate mathematical methods like supervised and unsupervised learning, frequentist statistics, estimation methods
• Designing large-scale ML systems with advanced ML frameworks like TensorFlow/Keras/PyTorch for training and inferencing at scale
• Ensuring cross team alignment towards business/project goals by driving visibility of initiatives, managing conflicts, and highlighting implementation blocks

Qualifiers:

• 6 - 10 years of experience in building and maintaining ML solutions at scale
• Proficient in predictive modelling (ML,DL/RL) and experimentation/causal inference methods
• Atleast 1 year of experience in managing team of data scientists and handling cross functional stakeholders
• Proven track record of designing end to end ML systems which can handle the scale

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.