Job Description

Your role in helping us shape the football (Soccer if your American) future:

Ole Ole is building an LLM for football history competing directly with Wikipedia building an interactive product. LA intends to become the largest repository of football history in the world.

OleOle is seeking a highly skilled individuals to design and build our LLM for football History. The ideal candidate should possess:

To build this in-house LLM and design an engaging user interface, here's a breakdown of the team you'll need:

1. Book Digitization and Data Extraction Team
- Librarians/Archivists To identify and source non-digital books on football history. They’ll work on finding rare and comprehensive sources across regions.
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Specialists: To convert scanned pages from the books into machine-readable text, ensuring accuracy in text extraction from various book formats.
- Data Engineers: To structure the extracted data into a usable format for your database, and ensure it's clean, indexed, and organized for both LLM training and querying.
- **Content Curators/Editors: To verify the accuracy of the extracted content and edit it to ensure consistency, readability, and alignment with Ole Ole’s voice and standards.

2. LLM Development Team
- Machine Learning Engineers: To develop, fine-tune, and train the LLM on football-specific data, ensuring the model captures the nuances of the sport’s history, teams, competitions, and legends.
- Data Scientists: To ensure proper data preparation, cleaning, and augmentation, making sure the LLM learns from the vast amount of football content effectively.
- NLP (Natural Language Processing) Experts: To focus on ensuring the LLM handles user questions, natural language text inputs, and interactions in a conversational, fan-friendly manner.
- AI Ethics Specialists: To oversee data privacy, bias reduction, and ensure the LLM complies with legal and ethical standards for handling sports history and fan interactions.

3. User Interface and Web Development Team
- UX/UI Designers To design a user-friendly, engaging interface that allows fans to interact with the LLM seamlessly. The interface should be optimized for both desktop and mobile to attract and retain traffic.
- Web Developers (Front-End and Back-End): To build the infrastructure for the website, ensuring fast load times, SEO optimization, and smooth user interactions. This is key for competing with Wikipedia.
- Interactive Design Experts To create an engaging, visually appealing layout for the history section, incorporating infographics, multimedia elements, timelines, and statistics that will make it superior to Wikipedia’s text-heavy pages.
- SEO Specialists: To ensure that the design and content are optimized to rank highly for organic traffic, incorporating search best practices like structured data, backlinks, and schema markup.

4. Statistics and Data Team
- Data Analysts: To ensure the statistics and historical data behind the 24,000 teams, 1,000 competitions, and 5,000 legends are accurate, up-to-date, and formatted for easy integration into both the LLM and the user interface.
- Database Administrators: To manage the large datasets, ensuring the system can handle high query loads, scale as needed, and integrate well with both the LLM and user interface.

5. Creative/Content Team
- Writers/Historians To craft original articles or summaries of key events, competitions, and legends that fill in gaps where book content isn’t enough or is outdated.
- Graphic Designers: To create visuals like team crests, match snapshots, player profiles, and competition logos that make your history pages stand out.

6. Project Management Team
- Technical Project Managers To coordinate between teams, ensuring that digitization, LLM development, interface design, and SEO optimization all move in sync and on schedule.

This multi-disciplinary team will allow you to execute on both the technical aspects (book scanning, LLM development) and the more creative, user-centric goals (designing a better history section than Wikipedia) to pull in organic traffic effectively.

Combining technical prowess, creative content generation, and a deep passion for football, this individual will play a key role in creating a dynamic and comprehensive historical football platform that sets itself apart from existing resources like Wikipedia.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role should have a technical background with expertise in:

1. Web Development: Proficiency in languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular for building an interactive platform.

2. Backend Development: Knowledge of server-side languages (e.g., Python, Node.js, PHP) and experience with database systems (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB) for robust data management.

3. AI and Machine Learning: Practical experience using AI tools for content generation, such as natural language processing (NLP) and generative models. This could involve utilizing frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.

4. Automation: Skills in scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python scripts, CI/CD pipelines) to automate aspects of platform development and content creation.

5. UI/UX Design: Understanding of user interface and user experience principles to create an engaging and intuitive platform.

For AI applications, the candidate should be using AI to enhance user experience, perhaps by employing natural language generation (NLG) for generating historical content, sentiment analysis for user feedback, or recommendation systems for personalized user interactions.

In terms of content expertise, the candidate should bring:

1. Football History Knowledge: A deep understanding of the history of football, including key events, players, and teams across different eras and regions.

2. Data Curation Skills: Ability to curate and organize vast amounts of football-related data in a coherent and accessible manner.

3. Research Skills: Proficiency in researching historical football facts and events to ensure accuracy and comprehensiveness.

4. Communication Skills: The ability to convey historical football information in a compelling and accessible way for a diverse audience.

This combination of technical skills and football domain expertise is crucial for building an innovative historical football interactive platform that leverages AI for content generation and provides a unique and enriching experience for users.

Additional Information

Solutions not problems .

• Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices, lets build something better!
• Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
• An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
• Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Santa Monica, however, this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!