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About Genius Sports
Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users.

If you want to be part of a passionate global team shaping the future of sports entertainment, then come join us. We foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning drive innovation for our partners and end-users.

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build low-latency and reusable data pipelines that produce tracking and pose data that powers AI-driven insights about team and player performance, assists our semi-automated systems that make real-time officiating decisions, and revolutionizes the sports viewing experience through live video augmentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams across computer vision, AI, and augmentation to integrate low-latency algorithms.
• Develop performant code for both cloud-based and on-premise environments.
• Design autonomous systems that scale efficiently and minimize manual intervention.
• Create tools and frameworks that accelerate developer productivity and team velocity.

**Requirements **

• 3 years of industry experience
• Experience with optimizing and benchmarking low-latency, real-time systems
• Enthusiasm towards framework development and developer experience
• Learning and mentoring mentality
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Proven technical leadership and strong communication skills
• Proficiency in writing async Rust

**Preferred Qualifications **

• 5+ years of industry experience
• Experience designing and building live data streaming pipelines
• Previously delivered live events and participated in on-call support
• Used message brokers such as Pulsar, RabbitMQ, ZMQ
• Devops experience with Linux, CMake, Docker/Earthly, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Nvidia GPUs and CUDA

**What’s in it for you? **
As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.

**How we work: **
Genius will be returning to the office 4 days a week, and this will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively face-to-face with colleagues in our Los Angeles office.