Key Requirements

As a quantitative analyst at Smartodds, you’ll be part of an exciting environment, predicting outcomes of professional sports on behalf of our clients. We focus on football, American football, baseball, basketball, cricket, golf, ice hockey, and tennis.

You’ll have plenty of autonomy to execute your models from idea to code to validation to (hopefully) deployment, integrating your well documented and tested code into our internal libraries to help in prediction for at least one of the above sports.

The atmosphere is a collaborative academic one with peer reviews, research talks, and the opportunity for further education. Unlike academia though, the market is there to give immediate feedback on how good your model is. This makes the job challenging but also very exciting. It is quite likely that you will work on models for in-game predictions or understanding how the actions of our clients affect the gambling markets, both of which are growing areas of the business.

Skills & Experiences

Essential:

• Extensive experience of probabilistic and statistical modelling
• Strong programming skills in one high level language such as R or Python
• Ability to communicate results to those with and without specialist knowledge

Desirable (but don’t worry if you don’t have these):

• Knowledge of and interest in at least one of the following sports : Baseball, Basketball, Football (soccer), Cricket, American Football, Tennis, Ice Hockey
• At least three years of work experience for those without PhDs
• Good programming skills in C++ and/or Julia
• Experience with and/or knowledge of Bayesian models, state space models, filtering and smoothing, computational statistics and approximate inference methods

Benefits

Available from Day 1:

• 30 days holiday (in addition to bank & public holidays)
• In-house chef*
• In-house masseuse*
• Wide range of team sporting events (including football, basketball and tennis)*
• Cycle to work scheme
• Interest free travel season ticket loan
• Offsite trips*

Available After 3 Months

• Pension – Employer Contribution starting at 5.5%, and employee starting at 2.5%
• Income protection– 75% of salary (subject to terms & conditions)

Available After Probation

• A fantastic Private Medical Plan which includes Private Medical Insurance (PMI) as well as Cash Plans
• Eligibility to join our Electric Vehicle (EV) Scheme
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Life Assurance (4 x times earnings at time of death)
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay

Available After 2 Years

• Increase In Employer Pension to 6% (to a minimum employee contribution of 3%)
• Enhanced Maternity Pay – 6 weeks at full salary & 20 weeks at 50% of salary (inclusive of SMP)
• Retrospective Maternity Retention Payment (RMRP)
• Enhanced Paternity Pay – 3 weeks at full pay (again inclusive of SPP)

Available After 4 Years

• Increase In Employer’s Pension to 7% (to a minimum employee contribution of 3.5%