Principal Computer Vision Engineer

Catapult is building the future of sports performance technology, with a mission to unleash the potential of every athlete and team on earth. We are actively changing the sporting industry with our solutions leading the way in sports performance software, science, and data. We work with over 5,000 teams around the world, empowering coaches, managers, and trainers in premier teams across various leagues. Our technology delivers health, performance, video, and AI insights, ensuring every decision is an opportunity to gain an advantage and build lasting success.

We are looking for a Principal Computer Vision & Tracking Engineer to own and drive the computer vision and real-time tracking systems at the heart of our camera-based products. Based in Boston (hybrid), you will lead a small team building the perception stack that turns vision data into athlete performance insights. This role involves optimizing models for edge inference, designing new movement analysis algorithms, and analysing data to produce athlete profiles. You will report to a Senior Director of Engineering and collaborate closely with our embedded platform and applications teams.

What You’ll Do

• Own the technical direction of our computer vision and tracking domain: the full pipeline from sensor readings through computer vision, motion recognition, and metric calculation.
• Lead and mentor a small team (1–2 engineers), setting priorities, reviewing designs, and driving execution while remaining deeply hands-on.
• Train, optimize, and deploy neural networks for real-time segmentation and classification on embedded hardware.
• Extend our tracking and motion recognition pipeline to support new movements and types of analysis.
• Own the reliability of the domain: analyse tracking accuracy, build quality metrics, and use data to drive improvements across the pipeline.

What You’ll Need

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in at least one of: computer vision, real-time systems, ML/AI deployment, or robotics perception.
• Strong proficiency in Python and C/C++.
• Demonstrated experience shipping ML or CV systems to production, especially on resource-constrained or embedded platforms.
• The ability to own ambiguous problems end-to-end: scoping, prototyping, shipping, and measuring.
• Comfort with leadership: you’ve mentored engineers, led technical direction, or driven cross-team initiatives.

Nice To Have – And What Would Make You Exceptional

• Deeper knowledge of the mathematics behind tracking systems: 3D geometry, camera models, state estimation, filtering, optimization.
• Experience with edge AI accelerators and inference optimization libraries.
• Background in pose estimation, human movement analysis, or biomechanics.
• Experience with depth cameras and 3D perception.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux, Docker on ARM, and systems-level debugging.

What Your Success Will Look Like

• In 6 months time, you have shipped at least one meaningful improvement to detection or tracking quality.
• In 12 months time, you’ve driven the roadmap for expanding our vision system to new movement types.

Why Catapult?

We have amazing people and promise you’ll work with some of the most ambitious, intelligent individuals in an exciting industry. We encourage constructive, open, and honest communication to make Catapult extraordinary. Our workforce spans more than 20 countries, providing opportunities to work with diverse cultures and build global awareness. We value improvement and development, maintaining a growth mindset in everything we do.

Whether you’re interested in sports or not, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing your work supports some of the most successful teams and athletes on the planet!

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized groups tend only to apply when they check every box. If you have what it takes but don’t meet every single point in our job ad, please still get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team.

All offers of employment are subject to Catapult's positive prehire check. To find out more, please contact the Talent Partner for this role.