Talent Acquisition Specialist, Baseball Ops

Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-Time

Position Overview:
This Talent Acquisition Specialist will be responsible for providing full life cycle recruiting and staffing support for Baseball Operations. They will work closely and collaboratively with department heads to customize sourcing and recruiting strategies to generate a robust and diverse pipeline of talented candidates. This role will report dually into People & Culture and Baseball Operations.

They will be expected to truly integrate within both departments, immersing into the People & Culture team for functional oversight from a talent acquisition perspective and baseball ops for delivering value to the baseball side of our business.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a strategic approach to identifying, attracting, engaging, and acquiring top talent for all open and prospective positions within Baseball Operations.
• Utilize recruiting and sourcing tools such as job boards, social media, resume databases, baseball-related websites, and search engines to identify local and national candidates.
• Build close relationships with historically Black colleges & universities and other diverse institutions to help create an employer brand and pipeline of talent. 
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the functions and goals of every area of Baseball Operations, the culture of the department, how the groups within it work together, and the roles and contributions of all baseball operations staff.
• Create networks within the baseball industry to identify, track, and source candidates.  Leverage the networks of others within Baseball Operations to do the same and consolidate information so that it can be used efficiently and strategically.
• Conduct research and maintain a database of individuals in various baseball and softball operations roles throughout the industry.  This should be done at the professional and college levels, in sports media, and in the realm of independent consultants/practitioners to help with proactive sourcing efforts.
• Research and stay current on staffing and hiring practices of other MLB clubs, with an eye toward gaining competitive advantages for the Red Sox. 
• Identify key individuals/potential targets from other clubs to fill current and future fits with the Red Sox, while adhering to MLB’s anti-tampering policies.
• Identify internal candidates for opportunities in Baseball Operations (example – suggesting to the Farm Director that we consider a particular amateur scout for an open coaching position in player development).
• Plan and execute the interview process, including candidate screening, pre-hire assessments, coordinating/scheduling interviews, and candidate feedback/evaluations.
• Ensure a high touch candidate experience through thorough communication and timely feedback, as well as interviewer preparedness and effective interview format.
• Assist managers in making hiring recommendations and executing the offer & contract process.
• In collaboration with other Baseball Ops staff members, lead the recruiting process for the Baseball Operations Associate program, Summer Internship and David Ortiz Fellowship program.
• Stay current on federal and state laws regarding employment and hiring practices.
• Partner with MLB’s network of People & Culture & DEI&B professionals to share best practices and develop a network within the baseball community.
• Attend Winter Meetings and other job fairs to represent the Red Sox in identifying future talent.
• Attend spring training as needed each year.  Occasional travel to minor league affiliates and scouting events.
• Assist with recruiting efforts outside of Baseball Operations if need arises and time permits.

Characteristics / Qualifications:

• 5+ years of proven work experience in full life cycle talent acquisition OR prior experience working within baseball or other sport operations roles with a desire to focus on talent acquisition and a skill set that shows strong aptitude for recruiting.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience in sourcing and generating diverse pipelines of talent is preferred.
• In-depth experience using applicant tracking systems preferred.  
• High energy personality and strong relationship building skills for building trust and credibility with both candidates and hiring managers.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Effective time management skills and detail orientation to organize all components of recruiting searches. 
• Track record of improving upon current processes, implementing new ways of doing things, and leading a culture of continuous improvement, especially as it relates to sourcing and recruiting talent.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite.

Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination based on race, religious creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap, disability, military/veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or protected genetic information.

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Senior Performance Analyst, Foundational Research

Reports to: Assistant Director, Foundational Research
Additional reporting responsibilities to: Director, Integrative Baseball Performance
Location: Philadelphia, PA or Remote

Position Overview:
Analysts with the Phillies are tasked with maximizing organizational impact, in pursuit of building a consistent World Series contender. As a Performance Analyst in the Foundational Research department, you tackle baseball’s most difficult problems in biomechanics, strength and conditioning, and athletic training, leveraging proprietary data sources to systematically improve player evaluation, development, performance, and health at scale.

You work closely with technical staff and performance specialists in Baseball Operations to outline a strategic vision for the future of performance research at the Phillies. You internalize cutting-edge insights from the Phillies’ Research & Development department in player evaluation and development, leveraging those insights in performance research that is effortlessly additive to our existing player acquisition and development paradigms.

Success in this role would involve improving our existing player evaluation tools, identifying novel and high-value avenues of high performance research, building systems to improve the efficiency and value of player assessment data collection, and seeing an integrative, best-in-class baseball performance process incorporated in organizational decision-making, spanning player acquisition and player development.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct and oversee performance research projects and manage the integration of their outputs into our proprietary tools and applications, in direct support of player evaluation, acquisition, development, and performance maximization
• Ensure projects conform to best practices for implementing, maintaining, and improving predictive models throughout their life cycles
• Communicate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and medical staff to design and interpret statistical studies
• Assist the rest of the Foundational Research and Integrative Baseball Performance teams with their projects by providing guidance and feedback on your areas of expertise
• Continually enhance your and your colleagues’ 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, ingestion, display, and analysis of baseball assessment data
• Rigorously identify and vet novel data sources, collection methodologies, or technologies that could be additive to our processes, supporting the organization in implementing them in a scientifically and statistically robust manner

Required Qualifications

• Deep understanding of statistics, including supervised and unsupervised learning, regularization, model assessment and selection, model inference and averaging, ensemble methods, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in handling, analyzing, and interpreting high-performance data in sports
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS, or similar), and databases (SQL)
• Demonstrated experience designing, constructing, implementing, and leading technical research projects for use by non-technical stakeholders
• Proven willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques
• Willingness to work as part of a team on complex projects
• Proven leadership and self-direction 

Preferred Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in a related quantitative (Math, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or scientific field (Biology, Physics, Bioengineering, etc.), or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with best practices in machine learning operations (Git, Docker, MLFlow or the equivalent)
• Experience designing and running experiments
• Experience managing or overseeing the work of other data scientists or analysts
• 0-5+ years of relevant work experience

Interested applicants should submit both their resume and an answer to the following question:
Our R&D Department informs us that a recently drafted pitcher would have a big league arsenal if they gained 2mph in the off-season. What models would you build or metrics would you look at to determine whether the player can achieve the proposed gain in velocity? (250 word limit)

Tip: There’s no defined right or wrong answer. Responses are used to get some insight into how you approach problem solving and baseball in general.

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A quick hitter here: today, MLB released the schedule for the 2023 playoffs. It’s not exactly compelling reading; for the most part, teams play a series of games against each other, mostly every day except for travel, just like you expect. But the new 12-team playoff format is still fresh, so let’s run down the relevant structure of the rounds just as a reminder.

Wild Card Round
This one is the same as before and will likely remain this way for as long as this playoff format exists. The worst division winner and the three wild card teams in each league play (up to) three straight games, at the better seed’s stadium, on three straight days, October 3–5. That means that a lot of teams will be burning their best three starters in this round, but there’s nothing new here, so let’s move on.

Divisional Series
Last year, the two leagues had different schedules, despite the same wild card schedule, to avoid days with no baseball whatsoever. That same general structure is preserved this year. The AL starts with two games on October 7 and 8, then a travel day, then games on the 10th and 11th, another travel day, and a potential Game 5 on the 13th. The NL is staggered differently: they start with a game on the 7th followed by a day off, then have a game on the 9th followed by a travel day, two straight games on the 11th and 12th, and finally a travel day before a potential Game 5.

This is a change from last year, as both leagues have more off-days baked into the schedule. In 2022, teams more or less had to use five starters if they went the distance in the wild card round. The 2022 NL schedule had only one off-day total across the round, and while the AL schedule had two off-days, it closed with three games in three days across two cities. With more time thanks to the lack of a lockout-impacted schedule, the rest days have multiplied. An NL team could use its three best starters in the wild card round, a fourth starter in Game 1, and then its three best starters again in Games 2–4. Amazingly, its ace could come back for Game 5 on regular rest; he’d be pitching on October 3, 9, and 14, hardly a strenuous schedule.

That won’t work quite as well in the AL, but it won’t be much worse. An ace could pitch on October 3, 8, and 13, with four days of rest between each start. Relative to last year, this year places less premium on depth and more on top-end starting pitching. Fifth starters, I’m sorry: your services likely won’t be required.

Championship Series
The ALCS schedule is almost exactly what baseball fans are used to: two games, a travel day, three games, another travel day, and then the last two games. The NL schedule is the same, other than the fact that it starts a day later. That double-travel-day setup means teams will never play more than three games in a row, which means a four-man rotation and shortened bullpen should work just fine. This was not the case last year, when both league schedules provided for five straight games with no travel day, again because of the compressed timeline. The takeaway here is the same: rotation depth is less important than it was in the 2022 postseason.

World Series
No change to the standard World Series format, which mirrors this year’s championship series format: two games, a travel day, three games, another travel day, and then the last two games. It’s the same schedule we’re all used to, with all the same implications for rest.

The broad takeaway: the schedule is returning to the rhythm of the playoffs from before last year (weirdo 2020 season excluded, naturally). Players will be more rested, which I’m sure they’re in favor of. Games are still staggered to minimize days without baseball. That’s about it; may the best team win.

The Astros have yet again acquired pitcher Justin Verlander and cash on deadline day, this time from the Mets for outfield prospects Drew Gilbert and Ryan Clifford. Verlander, signed to a two-year, $86.667 million contract before the season, put up a 3.15 ERA and a 3.81 FIP in 16 starts for the Mets. The exact amount of cash being sent along with Verlander is not yet known.

Verlander pitching for a team that wasn’t the Astros just felt kind of odd. While he certainly didn’t spend the bulk of his career in Houston, it’s where he had his personal pitching renaissance, where he clinched his future Hall of Fame membership, and where he got his championship rings. Verlander in blue-and-orange felt like that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Jean-Luc Picard is kind of a sad-sack 60-year-old ensign because he didn’t get in a bar fight as a youngster. Or maybe it’s like when you’re trying to buy a Coke at some rural gas station, but they’re out, and you end up with some bizarre generic cola that may have been sitting there since the Reagan years. Verlander’s opinion may vary, but from at least this fan, it feels like something that went wrong has been set right by Scott Bakula.

The Astros aren’t just trying to satisfy nostalgia; they needed a starting pitcher, so why not one they have a longstanding relationship with? A rash of injuries has left the rotation thinner than they would like heading into the homestretch, and they have a real dogfight this year with the Rangers, who’ve already added Max Scherzer and Jordan Montgomery; there’s no lapping the division by 15 games. Verlander has shown some clear signs of aging this year, as hitters are less prone to whiffing and are hitting the ball harder, and his control isn’t quite as precise as in the past. But these are normal things for a 40-year-old pitcher, and nearly every pitcher who is still in the league at 40 is going to fall out of it during the ensuing few seasons. Houston isn’t asking Verlander to carry the team, but to be a dependable, healthy arm who keeps the team in games. That he’ll do.

The money has not yet been disclosed — check my colleague Jay Jaffe’s upcoming piece for this and more — but my initial guess is “a bunch.” Verlander’s contract is a hefty one, and both Gilbert and Clifford are legitimate prospects; I can’t imagine the Astros would have parted with them if they were also paying full or near-full freight on Verlander. Our prospect team has already shifted in Gilbert as the new No. 1 prospect on the Mets, and while his stats at Double-A Corpus Christi are far from eye-popping, you have to remember that this is his first full professional season. ZiPS sees him peaking as a near two-win outfielder in the .260/.330/.400 range, though the error bars are quite wide when you’re talking someone with so little professional experience. ZiPS is highly interested in Clifford’s power upside (as is the scouting community), but there are a lot of questions about his plate discipline and defensive value to be answered.

MLB will have to approve any deal where more than $2 million changes hands, as will be the case with Verlander and Houston. That has not happened yet, so the deal will not be official for a little while .

— Andy Martino (@martinonyc) August 1, 2023

Stay tuned for more on the trade!

Members of the 2023 draft class are now on the pro side of The Board. You can see where freshly drafted and signed players stack up in their new organization’s farm system here. Graduates have also been pulled from The Board; their evaluations are now preserved on the 2023 Graduates tab. Players who exceed rookie playing time requirements between now and the end of the season will be moved from the 2023 Updated section of The Board to the Graduates section in real time, and those who graduate get a scouting update on their player page contrasting their evaluation with their performance at time of graduation. Note that the farm system rankings from prior to the graduates removal still exist here; live farm system rankings (for which the grads no longer count) exist here. These will shift and change as prospects move between now and the trade deadline.

Because the Top 100 grew and changed throughout the Prospect List cycle, readers should consider it live and up to date. I made some updates to Reds prospects (more on that in a second) and slid Diamondbacks outfielder Druw Jones, who succumbed to yet another injury between when the D-backs list published and now, but otherwise just pulled off the grads. There are only 89 players in the minors with a 50 FV grade or better right now because of the graduates being pulled off of the list. This is not unusual for this time of year; similar to the way the 50 FV cross section moved from 107 players to about 130 players during the last cycle, prospects who improve and advance will climb into that group.

Reds Update

Between now and the deadline, I’ll be reviewing the farm systems of a few key clubs likely to buy, something I’ve already done for the tippy top of the Reds system.

Lyon Richardson’s pitch grades have been altered to reflect that his changeup has become his best pitch. His innings count has been kept pretty conservative, and I’d really like to see him hold the 95–97 mph fastball he’s currently showing deeper into games before moving him into the 50 FV tier, but he looks really good. His command isn’t precise, but he has a mid-rotation starter’s mix and has been throwing hard since his return from TJ, just not while working a true starter’s innings load.

Cam Collier is struggling statistically, but the pro scouting reports from source clubs are still generally positive, and he is still very young for a full-season hitter. His swing is still pretty weird, but there’s just too much lefty power here to slide him so soon.

Noelvi Marte is not playing good defense right now. He’s hitting well enough that he’ll probably still be a quality big leaguer even if he has to move off of third base, but now that he is on the 40-man, he only has so long to find a position before he’s out of option years. Lurking on the horizon here is a scenario where he ends up with one or no options left and basically no position. It’s not his likeliest outcome, but because he’s looked pretty bad on defense for the last sixth months or so, this is now a conceivable outcome. I still think he will be a good big leaguer over time (he remains a 50 FV prospect on The Board), but were I a GM, I’d be apprehensive about making him the centerpiece of a trade return.

Christian Encarnacion-Strand moves up into the 45 FV tier as a power-hitting role player who’ll be a dangerous (but likely flawed) piece of this ascending Reds team. His Triple-A contact rate (72%) would be near the bottom of the MLB 1B position group (70%), and his chase rates (an eyebrow-raising 39%) were about 20% worse than big league average (32%) at the time he was called up. League-wide adjustment to his tendency to chase will make him streaky, but ultimately Encarnacion-Strand’s power is going to play in a big way because he’s incredibly strong, and his swing is geared to do big damage. There are warning signs here similar to what Elehuris Montero exhibited in the minors, even amid his awesome surface-level statistical performance, but CES is at a different level, physically.

Edwin Arroyo also slides from the 50 FV tier to the 45 FV tier. Again, he still projects to be a good big leaguer, just not a true everyday, omni-situational player in my eyes. He continues to have throwing issues that will likely funnel him to second base, which I suppose was already likely given the Elly/McLain combo ahead of him. He’s going to get to his power by virtue of his swing’s lift, but his bat-to-ball performance has regressed enough to reevaluate him in light of the new defensive projection and consider him more of a just-shy-of-average second baseman. Look at the kind of hit tool it takes to profile as an everyday second baseman. Arroyo’s performance has been fine, but not quite on that level.

You can see how punishing the De La Cruz, McLain, etc. graduations are to the Reds’ farm system ranking, but even if you consider that group to be untouchable, they have a ton of depth (nearly 50 ranked prospects) to leverage in trade discussions.

Génesis Cabrera changed feathers on Friday, as he was traded from St. Louis to Toronto for teenage catching prospect Sammy Hernandez a few days after Cabrera was designated for assignment. The hard-throwing 26-year-old southpaw had spent parts of five volatile seasons with the Cardinals. While he has enjoyed a significant bat-missing rebound in 2023 compared to last season (he’s back into the 26% K% area, up from 16.5% in 2022), Cabrera was in the midst of yet another rocky, homer-prone year before he was DFA’d. He introduced an upper-80s slider/cutter to his repertoire this year and has been using it a ton (36%), while his fastball velocity has slipped a bit. All of Cabrera’s non-fastball pitches generate above-average swinging strike rates, while his mid-90s heater tends to get shelled even though he and the Cardinals made changes to it this year. Perhaps a change of scenery and new outside intervention will lead to another tweak in this area:

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Biomechanical Analyst, Baseball Analytics

Location: Citi Field – Queens, New York
Status: Full Time

Summary:
The New York Mets are seeking a Biomechanical Analyst in Baseball Analytics. The Biomechanical Analyst will work in conjunction with the Sports Science department to answer a variety of questions relating to biomechanics and baseball. The analyst will be the primary bridge between Baseball Analytics and the Performance Technology group and will need a strong statistical background as well as some level of prior experience with biomechanical data. Prior experience in baseball is a plus but is not required.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement statistical models to answer a variety of questions relating to biomechanics and baseball
• Work in conjunction with the Sports Science department to integrate biomechanical research into Baseball Analytics models and pipelines
• Interpret data and report conclusions drawn from their analyses to support and improve decisions
• Serve as primary educational resource on biomechanical data within Baseball Analytics as well as a strong statistical modeling presence within Sports Science/Performance Technology
• Effectively communicate statistical concepts and the results of models to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Provide advice on technical requirements for the Data Engineering team, and guidance to the Baseball Systems team on how best to present model results
• Evaluate potential new data sources and technologies to determine their validity and usefulness
• Consistently analyze recent research in analytics and biomechanics that can help improve the modeling work done by the Baseball Analytics department
• Assist with recruiting, hiring, and mentoring new analysts in the Baseball Analytics department

Qualifications:

• At a minimum, BS in statistics or a related field, with post-graduate degrees a plus
• Professional experience in a quantitative position is a plus
• Biomechanics background or experience working with biomechanical data. Sports or baseball-specific experience is a plus
• Prior knowledge of motion capture and other technologies is a strong plus but not required
• Strong background and real-world data applications of a wide variety of statistical techniques. Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision modeling is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in R, Python, or similar, as well as strong proficiency in SQL
• Basic knowledge of data engineering and front-end development is a plus, for the purpose of communicating with those departments
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work cooperatively with others, and to take control of large-scale projects with little or no daily oversight
• Prior experience in or knowledge of baseball is a plus, but is not required

To Apply:
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Senior Quantitative Analyst

Department: Baseball Operations
Status: Full-Time
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Pay Rate: $120,000 – $150,000/year*
Reports to: Director, Quantitative Analysis

*Compensation rates vary based on job-related factors, including experience, job skills, education, and training.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking for quantitative baseball researchers to turn data into actionable insights through use of mathematical and statistical models. Senior Analysts are expected to innovate on our core data products, identify future areas of innovation in predictive modeling, identify and implement best practices in developing and deploying code, and provide data-backed opinions to coaches and front office decision-makers on decisions regarding on-field strategy, player development, and player evaluation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Own the development and deployment of our most complex and highest impact predictive models
• Identify, research, and implement opportunities for new models, data sources, and areas of baseball research
• Contribute to high level planning and prioritization of projects within the QA group
• Build internal tooling to make you and your peers more efficient
• Understand the needs of users and evaluate the day-to-day impact of analytics products
• Perform ad hoc data analyses to answer urgent questions from front office leadership and other groups within baseball operations
• Advise executives and coaches on player evaluation, player development, and on-field strategy
• Make public appearances to student and professional groups to aid departmental recruiting efforts
• Provide mentorship to junior analysts, interns, and various members of the Dodgers organization not coming from a technical background.

Basic Requirements/Qualifications:

• Passionate about winning championships
• 5+ years of experience building and evaluating predictive models in industry
• Expertise in model deployment and tools for automating data science workflows
• Experience maintaining a well-organized, well-documented code repository
• Experience mentoring early-career data scientists

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using data to advise decision-making in some domain
• Experience with Bayesian Statistics
• Experience with spatial statistics
• Experience with analysis of time series data
• Experience with machine learning, particularly problems involving computer vision
• Experience maintaining and monitoring machine learning models in production
• Experience with SQL
• Experience doing baseball research

To Apply:
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Quantitative Analyst

Department: Baseball Operations
Status: Full-Time
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Pay Rate: $90,000 – $110,000/year*
Reports to: Director, Quantitative Analysis

*Compensation rates vary based on job-related factors, including experience, job skills, education, and training.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking for quantitative baseball researchers to turn data into actionable insights through use of mathematical and statistical models. Analysts are expected to build and evaluate models, follow best practices in developing and deploying code, and provide data-backed opinions to coaches and front office decision-makers on decisions regarding on-field strategy, player development, and player evaluation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain and make improvements to our core predictive models
• Contribute features to internal tooling
• Understand the needs of users and evaluate the day-to-day impact of analytics products
• Perform ad hoc data analyses to answer urgent questions from front office leadership and other groups within baseball operations
• Advise executives and coaches on player evaluation, player development, and on-field strategy
• Make public appearances to student and professional groups to aid departmental recruiting efforts
• Provide mentorship to junior analysts, interns, and various members of the Dodgers organization not coming from a technical background.

Basic Requirements/Qualifications:

• Passionate about winning championships
• 2+ years of experience building and evaluating predictive models in industry or equivalent experience in academia
• Experience maintaining a well-organized, well-documented code repository

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using data to advise decision-making in some domain
• Experience with model deployment and tools for automating data science workflows
• Experience mentoring early-career data scientists
• Experience with Bayesian Statistics
• Experience with spatial statistics
• Experience with analysis of time series data
• Experience with machine learning, particularly problems involving computer vision
• Experience maintaining and monitoring machine learning models in production
• Experience with SQL
• Experience doing baseball research

To Apply:
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Junior Quantitative Analyst

Department: Baseball Operations
Status: Full-Time
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Pay Rate: $75,000 – $85,000/year*
Reports to: Director, Quantitative Analysis

*Compensation rates vary based on job-related factors, including experience, job skills, education, and training.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking for quantitative baseball researchers to turn data into actionable insights through use of mathematical and statistical models. Analysts are expected to build and evaluate models, follow best practices in developing and deploying code, and provide data-backed opinions to coaches and front office decision-makers on decisions regarding on-field strategy, player development, and player evaluation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist more senior analysts in building, evaluating, deploying, and maintaining statistical and machine learning models of baseball data
• Understand the needs of users and evaluate the day-to-day impact of analytics products
• Perform ad hoc data analyses to answer urgent questions from front office leadership and other groups within baseball operations
• Advise executives and coaches on player evaluation, player development, and on-field strategy
• Continue to build your own data science skills and those of your colleagues

Basic Requirements/Qualifications:

• Passionate about winning championships
• Demonstrated experience building and evaluating predictive models. Candidates providing evidence such as a personal GitHub page will be given highest consideration.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using data to advise decision-making in some domain
• Experience with model deployment and tools for automating data science workflows
• Experience maintaining a well-organized, well-documented code repository
• Experience with Bayesian statistics
• Experience with spatial statistics
• Experience with analysis of time series data
• Experience with machine learning, particularly problems involving computer vision
• Experience maintaining and monitoring machine learning models in production
• Experience with SQL
• Experience doing baseball research

To Apply:
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Software Engineer, Baseball Systems

Description:
As part of Baseball Systems, the Software Engineer will collaborate with the Player Development team to assist in developing our athletes. This position requires strong software development skills and experience, as well as a demonstrated ability for independent thought and the willingness to work within a team framework.

Core duties for this role include, but are not limited to:

• Deliver highly dependable, easy to use software while being part of a fast-moving team.
• Design and develop new features to deliver key athletic performance measures for the Player Development department while collaborating with Data Engineering, Tech Operations and Research & Development.
• Collaborate with the Pitching, Hitting, and Defense coordinators on tools for evaluating player performance and delivering player feedback.

The ideal candidate will have:

• created web apps using HTML, CSS and Javascript frameworks
• experience developing APIs in C# or other similar languages
• worked with relational databases
• familiarity with Git version control software
• A love of sports
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field from four-year college or university; and up to 3 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Our Team:

• Baseball Systems is the software backbone of Baseball Operations. We provide data and decision-making tools for analysts, coaches, and front office personnel to help win a World Series.
• Our department consists of a team of data engineers and a team of software engineers who work across all different aspects of Baseball Operations providing support and tools relevant to each group.
• We work directly with stakeholders in every department of Baseball Operations to ensure every project we work on drives value to the organization and helps us win more games on the field.
• We help drive technical innovation to find new ways to solve baseball problems

What will you do each day?

• Design and develop new features or maintain existing features in our internal web applications.
• Squash bugs quickly.
• Collaborate with Baseball Operations staff to plan new features and ensure requirements are met.
• Develop walk-throughs for non-technical users to familiarize them with new features.
• Watch baseball.

Our Pitch
You come here to make a difference. We are a purpose-led organization, focused on building an inclusive and engaging culture that fosters excellence, collaboration and ingenuity. We strive to be a model employer and cultivator of talent, empowering our teams to drive innovation through the inclusion of diverse thoughts, ideas and perspectives. We operate at the highest standard of excellence, investing in the development of our staff across all levels and embracing differences through a culture of respect and understanding.

We are proud to offer a highly competitive perks and benefits package including:

• Exceptional health and dental rates, and fully covered vision package
• 401(K) match and an additional annual contribution from the Club
• Unlimited vacation time
• Paid parental leave
• Collaborative recognition program and incentives
• Leadership development programming
• Online educational platform for personal and professional development
• Employee Resource Groups
• Paid time off for volunteering
• Year-round diversity, equity and inclusion training and development
• Brewers Home Game tickets, promotional giveaways and other discounts!

For more information about our Crew, other benefits and insight into our Club culture please visit our Careers Page.

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