Computer Vision Engineer (Contract | Outside IR35 | Up to £700/day) at OpenSource, London Area, £700 per day

Contract Computer Vision Engineer – Sports Broadcasting

Contract: 6 months

Location: London / Hybrid

Rate: Up to £700 per day

IR35: Outside IR35

Overview

They are looking for an experienced Computer Vision Engineer to join on a 6-month contract to work on broadcast sports video.

The role is focused on building and improving computer vision pipelines applied to live and recorded sports broadcasts, extracting structured information from broadcast footage and handling the real-world challenges that come with production-grade video.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve computer vision pipelines operating on sports broadcast video
• Develop models for tasks such as object detection, tracking, event recognition, or temporal analysis
• Work with broadcast-quality footage, including multiple camera angles, replays, overlays, and compression artefacts
• Handle common broadcast challenges such as replays, inconsistent framing, occlusions, and missing context
• Ensure extracted outputs are accurate, consistent, and production-ready
• Collaborate closely with engineers and domain specialists to align on definitions and edge cases
• Contribute pragmatically in a contract environment, owning delivery end to end

Requirements

Must-have:

• Strong commercial experience as a Computer Vision Engineer
• Hands-on experience working with sports broadcast video (live or recorded)
• Solid Python experience and common CV libraries / frameworks
• Experience deploying CV models into real production systems
• Comfortable working with noisy, imperfect, real-world data
• Able to work independently and deliver within tight timelines

Nice to have:

• Experience with video pipelines or streaming systems
• Exposure to real-time or near-real-time CV workloads
• Experience working alongside data or analytics teams

Contract Details

• 6-month initial contract
• Outside IR35
• Up to £700 per day
• Hybrid working, London