Job Posting: Chicago Cubs – Analyst Baseball Analytics, Summer Fellow Baseball Systems

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November 10, 2022

Analyst, Baseball Analytics

Department: Research & Development, Baseball Operations
Reports To: Director, Baseball Analytics

Role:
The Chicago Cubs are seeking analysts to join the Baseball Analytics group in the Baseball Operations’ Research and Development team. This role will focus on constructing models that estimate skills, likelihoods, and contexts for various baseball phenomena. The analyst will work closely with the entirety of the R&D department to develop methods to process data, improve the effective understanding and application of data, and disseminate analytic insights throughout the organization. Analysts may focus their efforts towards collaborating with the Advanced Scouting, Amateur Scouting, International Scouting, Professional Scouting, Baseball Sciences, or Player Development groups, as strengths dictate.

Responsibilities:

  • Create data modeling pipelines that maintain up-to-date predictions of a variety of baseball metrics
  • Analyze collected data leveraging in-house models and insights
  • Research, develop, and test methods and models for the purpose of player assessment, development, and acquisition, as well as the optimization of in-game strategy
  • Effectively present analyses using written reports and data visualization methods to communicate relevant findings
  • Work with Baseball Systems team to integrate new statistical analyses, models, and data visualizations into Cubs web applications
  • Incorporate new analysis into existing data processes to improve automated reporting
  • Identify, diagnose, and resolve data quality issues
  • Conduct in-depth evaluations of amateur and professional prospects
  • Handle data and analysis requests from the coaching staff and other departments within Baseball Operations

Desired Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, engineering, mathematics, physics, quantitative social sciences, computer science, or operations research
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency with SQL, and at least one statistical programming language (e.g., Julia, MATLAB, Python, R)
  • Working knowledge of advanced baseball statistics
  • Familiarity with advanced statistical modeling techniques
  • Relevant experience working in baseball preferred

To Apply:
To apply, please follow this link.

Summer Fellow, Baseball Systems

Department: Baseball Operations: Research & Development – Baseball Systems
Reports To: Architect, Baseball Systems

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Role:
The Chicago Cubs Baseball Systems Department is seeking to fill a Baseball Systems Fellow position. This role will focus on assisting the development and maintenance of the Chicago Cubs baseball information system data warehouse, including creating web interfaces and web tools for the user interface; building automated ETL processes which feed it; maintaining back-end databases; and troubleshooting data sources issues as needed. This role will collaborate with software engineers, data analysts, and other internal users in their use of the Cubs’ systems and data warehouse.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist in the design and implementation of web interfaces for the Baseball Ops information system • Assist with building data visualizations for baseball users.
  • Assist with design and implementation of mobile application features
  • Assist with the development and maintenance of ETL processes.
  • Identify, diagnose, and resolve data quality issues

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Related Subjects
  • Expertise with modern database technologies and SQL
  • Expertise in Python, Java, C# or a similar language
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • High level of attention to detail

Desired Qualifications:

  • In progress Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Related Quantitative Subjects
  • Familiarity with modern database technologies and SQL
  • Familiarity with Python, Java, C++ or another object-oriented language
  • Familiarity with front-end web development, including HTML, CSS, and Javascript
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

To Apply:
To apply, please follow this link.

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