Direct links to applications (please see job details below):

Cloud Engineer
Major League Strategy Fellow
Minor League Affiliate Fellow (Seasonal)

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Cloud Engineer

Job Summary:
The St. Louis Cardinals are looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our St. Louis-based Baseball Development team. Candidates should either live in, or be willing to relocate to, the St. Louis metro area. Candidates should also have a deep love of baseball, like the idea of being on a small, dynamic team with high individual flexibility and responsibility, and be competitively driven with a growth mindset. We compete with other teams in our domain just like our MLB players compete with other teams on the field. This position must have open flexibility during the season with hours and availability.

Job Duties:
The role of Cloud Engineer will be a cross-functional role that balances Google Cloud Platform systems engineering with software engineering and data engineering. Some example projects this position would be working on:

• Profiling a BigQuery procedure to determine a way to improve performance and reduce costs
• Writing a tool in Go to automate some common data engineering task
• Assessing options to improve resource utilization in a Kubernetes cluster
• Extending our Python ETL framework to support a new data source
• Planning, testing, and upgrading a database server to the latest version

Other essential job functions include:

• Maintain a small number of hosted servers/services: Google Composer, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Diligently monitor cloud performance and cost
• Maintain a self-managed Microsoft SQL database server

Experience Required:

• Advanced knowledge of Google Cloud Platform offerings and best practices
• Intermediate knowledge of either Go or Python or two other programming languages
• Intermediate knowledge of Terraform or equivalent
• Growth mindset, self-motivated, curious, competitive, collaborative
• Curious to help wherever well suited to do so, across the full data stack, from ingestion, to modeling, to analysis, to visualization
• Knowledge of cloud networking best practices, VPC network peering, etc. helpful but not required
• Knowledge of database administration, query profiling, etc. helpful but not required
• Knowledge of data lifecycle processes with an emphasis more on accessibility and quality helpful but not required

To Apply
To apply, please follow this link.

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Major League Strategy Fellow

Job Summary:
The role of Major League Strategy Fellow will utilize Baseball Development applications to identify actionable insights for the MLB team. This position will report to the MLB Analyst and will be based in St. Louis in the MLB clubhouse. Travel to Jupiter for Spring Training will be required. Even though not always there in person, this person should be available on the MLB team’s schedule from the start of spring training to the end of the MLB season.

Job Duties:

• Provide MLB staff with detailed analyses of player data trends and deviations from their typical performance
• Give strategic insights and recommendations based on Baseball Development information
• Be a point of contact within Baseball Development for MLB staff with data related questions and ideas
• Identify new tools that Baseball Development can build to better serve MLB team
• Collaborate with Baseball Development in building new predictive models or actionable metrics
• Build prototypes, or collaborate with Baseball Development in building production versions, of future automated reports and applications
• Assist in the capture, dissemination, and utilization of video and data
• Assist in quality control of reports and applications created by Baseball Development and sent to MLB staff

Experience Required:

• Strong ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both written and verbal form
• Ability to work effectively with various stakeholders in a fast-paced team environment
• Humility, curiosity, and ability to interact productively with others
• Experience with modern baseball data including ball tracking, player tracking, and limb tracking data
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical baseball data to non-technical audiences
• Experience communicating with baseball coaches and staff
• Familiarity with database querying languages
• Awareness of predictive modeling and machine learning concepts
• Proficiency at building easy to read data visualizations and reports is a plus, but not required
• Ability to build automated applications and/or websites is a plus, but not required
• Experience writing published articles and/or speaking on radio/podcasts/television about modern baseball data is a plus, but not required

To Apply
To apply, please follow this link.

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Minor League Affiliate Fellow (Seasonal)

Job Summary:
The Minor League Affiliate Fellow will manage all aspects of video and technology at a domestic minor league affiliate location in supporting the minor league coaching staff (manager, hitting coach, and pitching coach, etc.). The data collected from video and technology will be utilized to provide feedback to players for development. This position will be placed at one of our minor league affiliates during the 2026 season.

Pre-game tasks will include managing distribution, set up and usage of all baseball technology along with any advance scouting needs from staff. During the game, this position will manage technology resources for the minor league coaches from the dugout. Post-game tasks will ensure all data and video collected from the day is available for reporting & analysis and create reports for players and coaches as required. This position will work directly with the Baseball Technology Department and reports to the relevant minor league manager for day-to-day responsibilities at the affiliate.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a strong work ethic and impressive intellect. The position is a seasonal job for the 2026 season but may lead to full-time employment in Baseball Technology or elsewhere within Baseball Operations.

Job duties:

• Manage baseball technology and video capture at the affiliate (e.g. Trackman, Blast Motion, Edgertronic Camera, etc.).
• During the game, depending on staff needs:
  • Manage in-game capture of technology and video from the dugout
  • Quality assurance of the video and data collected for analyses
  • Setup video camcorders for game recording
• Communicate any implementation issues to the Baseball Technology Coordinator that are not remediated through initial troubleshooting
• Attend Spring Training and travel with assigned minor league team on the road throughout the season

Experience/Education Required:

• Postgraduate or college senior available to start work during Spring Training
• Proven ability to use and troubleshoot baseball or sport science technology (like pairing portable trackman to an Edgertronic camera, syncing wearable technology to a mobile device, etc.)
• Familiar with and/or demonstrate the willingness to learn technology such as Blast Motion, Trackman, and video integration
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently
• Proficient with computers, iPads, and other electronics
• Ability to work weekdays, nights, weekends and holidays
• Spanish fluency is a plus

To Apply
To apply, please follow this link.

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