Senior Data Scientist (m / f / d)

Location : Hybrid / Cologne

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Data Scientist (m / f / d) with AI production experience responsible for designing, building, and operating the data and ML platform from scratch.

Start : ASAP | Languages : Fluent English

Make the Unseen seen! Our goal is to reinvent scouting in football and build the #1 global scouting platform for identifying and developing talent. With the help of modern AI technology, CUJU enables every young football talent to be seen – regardless of origin, gender, or social background. We create fair opportunities and transparent pathways into professional sports. Our platform connects athletes, clubs, and organizations worldwide to rethink scouting – data-driven, objective, and mobile. Together, we are shaping the next generation of global talent scouting.

🌟 Your Mission : As a founding member of CUJU’s new Data Team, you will build the data and analytics backbone of a football performance and talent diagnostics platform used by players, scouts, and clubs worldwide.

You will work with large-scale football performance data generated from smartphone video recordings, standardized drills, and AI-based movement analysis, transforming raw, noisy inputs into reliable, production-grade data products. You will design and implement systems that ingest, process, and analyze player data — enabling objective benchmarking, longitudinal player tracking, and data-driven talent identification.

Beyond performance analytics, you will also enable product and business insights, building analytics around user behavior, feature adoption, retention, and churn to inform product decisions and growth. This role is for someone who understands that football data and product analytics are built through software : robust pipelines, scalable cloud infrastructure, and well-engineered analytics — not just offline modeling.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade data systems. Your work will directly power CUJU’s core use cases across player evaluation, development insights, talent discovery, and product optimization.

Tasks

What You’ll Work On :

End-to-End Data Systems :

• Design, build, and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines for large-scale player and performance data
• Implement clean, versioned, and well-tested data flows from raw data → analytics → production systems
• Own data quality, monitoring, and reliability in production

Software Engineering & Cloud :

Predictive Analytics : Develop robust predictive models using machine learning, statistical analysis, and advanced analytics techniques to forecast performance, injury risks, and talent potential

Data Product Development : Collaborate closely with Product, AI, and Engineering teams to translate analytical insights into innovative, data-driven product features and offerings

Strategic Influence : Drive data-driven decision-making across product development, business strategy, and operational improvements

Requirements

🧠 What You Bring :

Benefits

🎯 Your Impact :

⚽️ Is this your next big play?

Are you passionate about sports, communicative, and eager to actively shape the future of sports? Then we look forward to your application!

Please send us your CV directly via the application link for JOIN.

Please acknowledge that we can only accept applications online through our recruiting software due to GDPR. Thank you!

An AI based technology which gives football talents the chance to improve their skills, compete against friends and the global CUJU community and get scouted by a record-proven network of international senior scouts and specialists. At any time, no matter who or where the talents are.

Latest AI technology evaluates, scores, and ranks each athlete in personal spiderwebs and the CUJU leaderboard. International pro players and top-class experts constantly develop new exercises and provide the talents with up-to-date information for the right lifestyle, which helps the talents to constantly improve.

Amateur clubs and football schools on each continent are already using CUJU providing coaches with data-based insights for measuring, improving and comparing their teams.