Senior Software Architect - Tracking

UK Based, with travel, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

This individual contributor role serves as the senior computer vision engineering authority for tracking technology. You will own software-level architectural design across tracking, auto-officiating, and data delivery while leading core computer vision domains.

What you will do

Own software-level architectural design across tracking, auto-officiating and data delivery
Lead core domains including camera calibration, ball tracking, skeletal tracking, and R&D
Set initial architecture for new tracking problems
Run the Software Domain Owner model for shared libraries
Represent tracking in the Engineering Architecture Steering group
Decide vision processing and ML integration direction
Research and bring in new tracking technologies
Build prototypes to prove proposals
Lead adoption of modern tooling including agentic coding frameworks and LLM-driven tools
Coach Squad Tech Leads, guide junior architects, and run technical talks

Required qualifications

Deep multi-camera computer vision
Camera calibration including intrinsics, extrinsics, distortion models, anti-wobble and bundle adjustment
Triangulation
3D ball and pose estimation
Skeletal tracking
Continuous-time modelling
Inverse kinematics
Expert cross-platform C++ across Windows and Linux, x86 and ARM, with CMake and real performance profiling ability
Strong working knowledge of GPU inference (TensorRT, Triton) and ML pipelines (PyTorch, ONNX)
Proven experience running tracking at scale in AWS, on-premise and on edge devices
Hands-on use of AI coding agents and LLM orchestration to accelerate algorithm R&D and refactoring in large codebases
A working understanding of generative AI, synthetic data generation and where they genuinely help real-time CV

About the company

Hawk-Eye provides tracking technology for sports including football, baseball, tennis, American football, ice hockey, cricket, basketball and rugby. The technology is delivered by over 100 engineers in the Tracking and Automated Officiating value stream.