SumerSports

SumerSports

LLMOps Platform Engineer

Remote (United States)

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 274 days ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningDeep LearningData EngineeringNLPLLMsRAGLLMOpsA/B TestingResearch

About the role

  • SumerSports is a leading football intelligence technology company that specializes in providing an innovative suite of products for football fans and NFL clubs.
  • What sets us apart is our unique blend of big tech talent, data scientists, and former NFL personnel, who have a combined 600+ years of NFL experience.
  • You'll work closely with AI app engineers, full stack engineers, and the Deep Learning Research group to ensure every AI system we ship is fast, grounded, and reliable.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate the LLM Platform: Develop model routing, prompt registry, and orchestration services for multi-model workflows.
  • Enable fast, safe experimentation: Implement automated evaluation pipelines (offline + online) with golden sets, rubrics, and regression detection.
  • Support CI/CD for prompt and model changes, with rollback and approval gates.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with product pods to instrument RAG pipelines and prompt versioning.
  • Optimize performance and cost: Profile latency, token usage, and caching strategies.
  • Build observability and monitoring for LLM calls, embeddings, and agent behaviors.
  • Ensure reliability and safety: Implement guardrails (toxicity, PII filters, jailbreak detection).
  • Maintain policy enforcement and audit logging for AI usage.
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  • Develop model routing, prompt registry, and orchestration services for multi-model workflows.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in applied ML, NLP, or ML infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong coding skills in Python and experience with frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Haystack.
  • Experience deploying models or AI systems in production environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Familiarity with prompt management, LLM observability, and CI/CD automation for AI workflows.

Nice to have

  • Experience with model serving (vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, KServe).
  • Understanding of LLM evaluation frameworks (OpenAI Evals, Promptfoo, Arize Phoenix, TruLens).
  • Background in sports analytics, data engineering, or multimodal (video/text) systems.
  • Exposure to Responsible AI practices (guardrails, safety evals, fairness testing).

Skills

  • Our data-driven platform empowers teams with insights and tools to make informed decisions within salary cap constraints.
  • The platform also serves the NCAA, offering insights around the transfer portal and more.

Benefits

  • Work with deep learning and data teams to integrate structured and unstructured retrieval into LLM workflows.

This listing is sourced directly from SumerSports's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.