Optimization Performance Specialist

We are looking for an Optimization Performance Specialist to lead the design, execution and analysis of performance benchmarks across our AI and ML optimization approaches for our sports scheduling platform.

Fastbreak AI is the world leader in sports league scheduling. Our customers include the NBA, NHL, MLS, La Liga, and more than 60 top leagues, each facing some of the most complex scheduling challenges in sports. We are an innovative, collaborative team looking for extraordinary people who enjoy solving big challenges.

Why This Position Is Exceptional

• You'll partner directly with the world’s largest sports leagues on real, high-stakes scheduling challenges.
• You own the benchmark “truth set” that steers our optimization roadmap.
• You'll work with a collaborative, intellectually rigorous and passionate team where the best idea wins.
• Your impact will be visible on screens and scoreboards everywhere.

What You’ll Do

You'll apply your computer science and math skills to determine the best algorithmic approaches for different scheduling problems, determine parameter settings, and work closely with other optimization specialists who develop new approaches to these incredibly challenging problems.

You'll be responsible for developing, maintaining and expanding the benchmarking frameworks that measure Fastbreak AI’s performance across a wide variety of scheduling and optimization workloads. You will work closely with our research, product and infrastructure teams to ensure that our solvers deliver world-class speed, accuracy and scalability on real-world problems.

This role blends deep algorithmic understanding, data-driven analysis, and hands-on experimentation.

Requirements

Preferred Experience

Location

Benefits

Compensation

Measure what matters, prove it with benchmarks and ship performance improvements that scale to match our rapid growth.  Apply now to help us define the next frontier of intelligent sports optimization.