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Arsenal FC | Research Engineer | London Colney, UK | HYBRID | FULL-TIME Yes, the 25/26 Premier League Champions! You'd be embedded with the Men's First Team analysis dept building …

It's not, although some football knowledge and interest in the game certainly helps.

I had to re-read this a couple times, ...but yes!

TL;DR - Our department was originally an independent football analytics startup https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/17/arsenal-pla...

We've used various methods over the years, but we'll check this one out. Thanks!

This works really well until you're dealing with potato quality video, weird fonts, and shirts plastered with ads, or even pretty good quality video and white shirts with white let…

We do plan to! We're getting a lot of questions about that. They can reach out via LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dove-43b7a85/ ).

Lots of great questions! > Does your team and department taking of analytics primarily on the footballing side? Like player performance? Yes, we work primarily on the footballing s…

Hmm, well the super secret stuff we’re working on comes directly to mind, but if I set that aside, boring entity resolution is actually a big pain point. Regardless of their sophis…

There definitely is hope for AI aiding with the less subjective elements of refereeing, such as offside, ball out of bounds, keeper moving off of line before a penalty is taken, et…

Whew didn’t expect this to get posted here but I’m not complaining! I’m Chris, Head of Analytics at Arsenal and hiring manager for this role ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dov…

Hiring manager here! Aside from 3rd party data, we contract with a nonprofit in Laos where operators collect event data for us (~2000 data points per match) across roughly a dozen …

Hiring manager here! While living off of porridge shouldn’t be necessary, I will say the porridge at the training ground is absolutely top tier.