Senior Software Engineer (Computer Vision, C++)

Bolt6
Winchester
5 months ago
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About Us

We’re building the future of sport. Bolt6 is a sports technology company at the forefront of visual innovation - from real-time tracking and data overlays, to immersive broadcast graphics and AR experiences. We work across tennis, golf, motorsport, volleyball, and more; partnering with rights holders and broadcasters to elevate how sport is seen, understood, and enjoyed.

What You’ll Do

  • Own Computer Vision Products End-to-End: You will own computer vision products throughout their entire lifecycle - from research and production-grade development to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.

  • Maintain Reliability of Our Products: Sports happen in real time, and you will ensure our products deliver continuously. You will diagnose and resolve issues related to cloud-based micro-service systems.

  • Optimise & Debug Real-Time CV Applications: You will find and optimise bottlenecks inside C++ apps both on CPU and GPU.

  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work with our Machine Learning team, Product Managers, and Operations to ensure the project delivers within deadlines.

  • Be a Part of Our Culture: Be proactive, ask for help and clarifications when needed. Lend a hand to your teammates, mentors those you can teach, make Bolt6 a better place.

What You’ll Bring

  • Proven Experience Building and Shipping C++ systems: You have owned, shipped, and maintained a computer vision system in the past, ideally in a cloud-based micro-service environment.

  • Proficiency in Computer Vision: 3D geometry for computer vision, SLAM, numerical optimisations, modern ML techniques. You must be comfortable integrating open-source code to tackle problems.

  • Strong Communication Skills: You can explain technical concepts easily to our product managers, and are able to link those to product features and its delivery phases.

  • Project Ownership: You don’t need to be told what to do. You take responsibility in your work in all stages, from building client confidence with proof-of-concepts, to maintaining reliability when it’s deployed.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience in solving non-linear least square problems

  • Experience in UI development e.g. ImGui

  • Understanding of multithreading techniques

  • Experience with GPU programming e.g. CUDA

  • Experience with a messaging framework, e.g. NATS, RabbitMQ

  • Experience working in and configuring cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • Experience working with software containers (Docker, Podman) and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm

What We Offer

  • High-impact projects that will appear on live television and be seen by thousands

  • If you are looking for a company where you will be challenged, valued and respected, with great compensation in a team that doesn’t play politics then this is the role for you

  • Ownership and autonomy of your work

  • The opportunity to work in sport at an elite level

  • Support through learning and development tailored to your role

  • We have supported a number of promotions as well as internal changes to help our top talent grow and stay engaged in their careers

  • Bonus scheme

  • Health and wellbeing stipend

  • Competitive salary

Location

There is a choice between working remotely ±3 hours timezone from UK, or we also have offices in London and Winchester.

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