To be clear, there are four positions here. There are two distinct jobs, and the Phillies are hiring both a full-time employee and an intern for each.

Position: Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Research & Development Software Engineers — Full-time & Intern

Location: Philadelphia

Description:
The work of a Software Engineer (SWE) or SWE intern at the Phillies extends well beyond merely coding. As a SWE you bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, networking and data storage, security, machine learning, natural language processing, UI design and mobile to shape the evolution of the Phillies baseball analytics systems.

Our ideal engineers will be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to handle new challenges. You will work closely with end users across Scouting and Player Development while building software tools from the ground up. Identifying appropriate design specifications through collaboration with those end-users, you will build applications that fit user needs.

We work across all of Baseball Operations, including the draft, free agency, player valuation, player development, in-game strategy, and injury prevention. As a SWE you will have the opportunity to use your technical expertise to invent and improve software solutions that impact decision-making at the Phillies.

Responsibilities:

• Improve existing and invent brand new proprietary applications to be used directly by the GM and executive staff.
• Collaborate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and medical staff regarding design and technical specifications of software solutions for Baseball Operations.
• Work together with Baseball R&D department to help optimize the Phillies internal computer system design, including crafting design solutions to efficiently and effectively synthesize, organize and present data from multiple third-party sources.
• Help increase the technical knowledge of the entire Baseball Operations department by providing training, mentorship, and support on the use of all applications and tools built by the team.

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Go, Objective C, Python or JavaScript).
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, design thinking, machine learning, natural language processing, and data architecture.
• Proven willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
• Proven leadership and self-direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s, PhD degree, further education or 4+ years’ experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field.
• Prior experience managing/leading a technical team.

To Apply:
Please email analytics@phillies.com by October 31st.

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Position: Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Research & Development Quantitative Analysts — Full-time & Intern

Location: Philadelphia

Description:
As a Quantitative Analyst (QA) or QA intern, you help shape the Phillies Baseball Operations strategies by processing, analyzing, and interpreting large and complex data. You do more than just crunch the numbers; you carefully plan the design of your own studies by asking and answering the right questions, while also working collaboratively with other analysts and software engineers on larger projects.

Using analytical rigor, you work with your team as you mine through data and see opportunities for the Phillies to improve. After communicating the results of your studies and experiments to the GM and executive staff, you collaborate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and trainers to incorporate your findings into Phillies practices. Identifying the challenge is only half the job; you also work to figure out and implement the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct statistical research projects and manage the integration of their outputs into our proprietary tools and applications (e.g., performance projections, player valuations, draft assessments, injury analyses, etc.).
• Communicate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and medical staff to design and interpret statistical studies.
• Assist the rest of the QA team with their projects by providing guidance and feedback on your areas of expertise within baseball, statistics, data visualization, and programming.
• Continually enhance your knowledge of baseball and data science through reading, research, and discussion with your teammates and the rest of the front office.
• Provide input in architecting the storage of baseball data.

Required Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of statistics, including supervised and unsupervised learning, regularization, model assessment and selection, model inference and averaging, ensemble methods, etc.
• Meaningful work experience with statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS, or similar), databases, and scripting languages such as Python.
• Proven willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
• Willingness to work as part of a team on complex projects.
• Proven willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
• Proven leadership and self-direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS, MS or PhD in Statistics or related (e.g., mathematics, physics, or ops research) or equivalent practical experience.
• 0-5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience drawing conclusions from data, communicating those conclusions to decision makers, and recommending actions.

To Apply:
Please email analytics@phillies.com by October 31st.