The NBA is seeking to develop advanced computer vision capabilities to automate basketball officiating, enhancing call accuracy, streamlining game flow, and providing decision-making consistency and transparency.
Requirements
- Masters, or Ph.D in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- Proven track record to design and implement solutions using modern ML architecture.
- Experience leading projects and driving execution of complex and ambiguous initiatives.
- Proven track record of breaking complex and ambiguous problems into understandable chunks, and mapping to applicable modern solutions.
- Demonstrated proficiency building and deploying machine learning solutions to production.
- Exposure to the entire ML stack, from data pipelines to model inference.
- Strong C++ programming skills (or another equivalent compiled on-board language), with a history of optimizing and deploying performance-critical systems.
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and deploying state-of-the-art tracking, 3D reconstruction and geometry estimation, scene understanding and visual recognition systems.
- Play a role in defining the technical strategy and actively look for problem areas and proactively propose solutions.
- Be a leader and an advocate for good ML design principles and software development practices.
- Staying up to date with the latest literature, technologies, and best practices in computer vision, machine learning and multi-modal foundation models.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers on the team.
- Make technical contributions across the automated officiating system (e.g. sensor pipelines, ML data pipelines, training, model development and evaluation pipelines).
- Be a guardian of the codebase and push for clean, well-tested and highly extensible code.
Other
- Masters, or Ph.D in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Passion for basketball and familiarity with officiating rules.
- Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to work onsite in New York and New Jersey offices.
