About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p>At Hudl, we build great teams. We hire the best of the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. You’re trusted to get your work done your way while testing the limits of what’s possible and what’s next. We work hard to provide a culture where everyone feels supported, and our employees feel it—their votes helped us become one of <a href="https://www.hudl.com/blog/newsweek-top-100-global-most-loved-workplaces-2023">Newsweek s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces</a>. <br><br>We think of ourselves as the team behind the team, supporting the lifelong impact sports can have: the lessons in teamwork and dedication; the influence of inspiring coaches; and the opportunities to reach new heights. That’s why we help teams from all over the world see their game differently. Our products make it easier for coaches and athletes at any level to capture video, analyze data, share highlights and more.<br><br>Ready to join us?</p> <div style="padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;"><iframe style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1095624224?h=9e8cdc9dbe&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479" width="" height=""></iframe></div> <p> </p></div><h2>Your Role</h2> <p>We re hiring a Senior MLOps Engineer for our Hardware Group to build and scale the machine learning infrastructure that powers Focus, our line of smart cameras. You ll own the edge deployment pipelines that transport neural networks from training clusters to tens of thousands of devices globally, and contribute to the platform that compiles trained models into optimised inference engines for devices like the Jetson Orin, building the "nervous system" for the next generation of automated sports capture.</p> <p>As a Senior MLOps Engineer, you ll:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Build scalable Edge infrastructure.</strong> You ll design, develop, and maintain the delivery systems that enable us to deploy models to fleets of devices.</li> <li><strong>Own the model compilation platform.</strong> You ll build and maintain the pipeline that takes trained models and produces optimised, hardware-specific inference engines — managing TensorRT compilation, precision trade-offs (FP16/INT8), calibration, and engine validation to ensure models run reliably and efficiently on target devices.</li> <li><strong>Work with cross-functional teams.</strong> You ll collaborate with Data Scientists, Embedded Engineers, and Product Managers to ensure smooth integration of complex features and capabilities</li> <li><strong>Drive automation and reliability.</strong> You ll implement infrastructure to silently test candidate models on production devices and build telemetry pipelines to monitor drift, thermal impact, and inference latency in the wild.</li> <li><strong>Solve complex physical challenges.</strong> You ll tackle the unique constraints of the edge - building resilient update mechanisms for low-bandwidth environments, optimising for limited storage, and ensuring devices recover gracefully from network failures.</li> <li><strong>Mentor and lead.</strong> You ll share your expertise to establish best practices in Python tooling, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD, guiding the team toward a more robust, automated future.</li> </ul> <p>We d like to hire someone for this role who lives near our offices in London or Barcelona, but we re also open to remote candidates in the UK and Spain.</p> <h2>Must-Haves</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Production MLOps expertise. </strong>You ve played a key role in building and operating pipelines that deploy models to production, with deep experience in CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and Linux systems.</li> <li><strong>Edge inference & compilation know-how. </strong>You have hands-on experience compiling and optimising models for embedded hardware - ideally with TensorRT - and understand the practical implications of precision, quantisation, and engine validation at scale.</li> <li><strong>Collaborative.</strong> You understand that shipping to hardware is a team sport and can communicate effectively with researchers and low-level embedded engineers to translate constraints into solutions.</li> <li><strong>Systems thinking.</strong> You can design architectures that handle failure gracefully and understand the implications of deploying to 10,000 heterogeneous devices, including how to manage risk via canary releases and safe rollbacks.</li> <li><strong>Bias towards action.</strong> You see your role as solving problems; this means filling gaps and taking initiative as needed to help the team win together.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Nice-to-Haves</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Experience with our Edge AI stack.</strong> Experience with the NVIDIA edge ecosystem (Jetson Orin, DeepStream SDK, TensorRT) is a huge plus.</li> <li><strong>Video Technologies.</strong> Familiarity with video pipelines, GStreamer, or ffmpeg.</li> <li><strong>Fleet management.</strong> Experience with tools like AWS IoT Greengrass, Balena, or custom OTA / fleet management solutions.</li> <li><strong>Sports Passion.</strong> You have an interest in sports technology, video analytics, or performance metrics—but if not, we ll teach you the domain.</li> </ul> <h2>Our Role</h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Champion work-life harmony</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’ll give you the flexibility you need in your work life (e.g., flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options and more) so you can enjoy your personal life too.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Guarantee autonomy</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We have an open, honest culture and we trust our people from day one. Your team