Fastbreak AI · 2 months ago
Optimization Performance Specialist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expFastbreak AI is the world leader in sports league scheduling, partnering with major sports leagues to solve complex scheduling challenges. The Optimization Performance Specialist will lead the design, execution, and analysis of performance benchmarks for AI and ML optimization approaches, ensuring the delivery of world-class speed and accuracy.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business Process Automation (BPA)Software
Responsibilities
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
Design and maintain benchmarking pipelines for different algorithmic approaches across an ever-growing set of highly proprietary benchmark problems
Develop automated tools for parameter tuning, performance profiling, and regression detection
Analyze algorithmic performance and identify bottlenecks in computation, model formulation, and solver configuration
Generate detailed benchmark reports and visualizations to guide engineering and research decisions
Collaborate with the optimization team to validate algorithmic improvements
Maintain version-controlled benchmark datasets and metrics repositories
Integrate benchmark testing into CI/CD pipelines for solver components
Qualification
Required
MS or PhD in Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or related field
3+ years of experience in software engineering, data analysis and/or managing computational workloads
Proficiency in Python, scripting, and other programming languages to run experiments, harvest results and extract results & insights
Strong background in algorithmic performance measurement and statistical analysis
Familiarity with running workloads on distributed resources (AWS, Azure, etc)
Experience with git, general software engineering practices
Preferred
Experience with discrete optimization and benchmarking efforts such as MIPLIB
Contributions to open-source optimization libraries or benchmark suites
Benefits
Great health, dental and vision insurance and employer-match 401(k)
Highly competitive salary and equity package (stock options)
Company
Fastbreak AI
Fastbreak AI is an AI-driven sports operations software company that provides sports scheduling and competition management solutions.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$45.2MKey Investors
NBA EquityGreycroft
2025-11-07Series A· $40M
2024-01-17Seed
2023-01-01Seed· $5.2M
Leadership Team
John Stewart
CEO & Cofounder
Tom Kuhr
Chief Operating Officer
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