Position: Chicago White Sox Baseball Analytics Fellowship

Location: Chicago

Description:
The Chicago White Sox seek a passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated individual with a desire to work in Baseball Operations. The fellowship will focus primarily on the numerical methods that drive Baseball Analytics, however there will be additional exposure to all facets of baseball operations. The fellowship is a paid position with a 10-12 month term.

Responsibilities:

• Develop data-driven applications and reports to assist the White Sox front office with player evaluation, arbitration, scouting, and player development.
• Create proprietary performance metrics and predictive models.
• Provide operational support.

Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or similar field.
• Knowledge of SQL Server or MySQL with the ability to write and optimize complex queries and stored procedures.
• Experience performing advanced statistical analysis with analytical tools such as R, MatLab, or Python.
• Experience working with large datasets.
• Familiarity with advanced baseball metrics and research.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated high degree of integrity, professionalism, accountability, and discretion.
• Ability to work flexible hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical proficiency in web development and scripting technologies such as HTML, PHP, AJAX, and JavaScript.
• Object oriented development experience with Visual Studio and C#.
• Experience presenting data with Tableau.
• Advanced quantitative degree or published research.
• Prior baseball playing or operations experience.

To Apply:
To apply, please send a resume to ApplyAnalytics@chisox.com.