Head of AI – Computer Vision / MLOps

Clutch is hiring a Head of AI to own the full Computer Vision and MLOps stack powering their automated padel videographer. This is a key leadership hire at a fast-growing sports tech startup — you'll shape the direction of AI across the product, from on-device model deployment to dataset design, evaluation pipelines, and training infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • - Lead deployment of Computer Vision models to production across 100+ camera-equipped clubs worldwide
  • - Design and maintain MLOps infrastructure: dataset creation, annotation pipelines, model versioning, continuous evaluation, and training/testing
  • - Own video understanding models for automated camera direction, highlight detection, and player coaching
  • - Implement on-device model deployment for edge compute in camera hardware
  • - Collaborate directly with CTO and engineering team to ship AI features to production
  • - Define AI roadmap and mentor future AI team members

Benefits & Perks

- €70,000–€100,000/year + equity - Fully remote (worldwide) - Key leadership hire — shape the AI direction of the company - Cameras in 100+ clubs and growing fast - Work on an exciting, novel sports AI problem

Requirements

  • - 5+ years of experience deploying AI models to production
  • - Strong hands-on experience with Computer Vision models and video understanding
  • - Proficiency in MLOps: dataset and annotation design, model versioning, continuous evaluation, training and testing
  • - Experience working with on-device model deployment is a strong plus
  • - Python proficiency and comfort across the full ML engineering stack
  • - Startup mindset — comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration

About Clutch

Clutch is building the future of padel with AI-powered cameras — an automated videographer and coaching experience for padel players. With cameras in over 100 clubs worldwide and rapidly growing, Clutch is hiring its first Head of AI to lead the intelligence layer powering real-time video analysis and player coaching at scale.

Company Size

11–50 employees employees

Industry

Sports Tech / AI / Computer Vision

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