BP Job Posting: Cleveland Guardians, Data Scientist

Major Goal

The Cleveland Guardians Baseball Analysis & Improvement (R&D) group is looking for to rent Information Scientists at quite a lot of expertise ranges, together with senior, entry-level, and intern/fellow. On this position, you’ll work alongside the remainder of the R&D group to rework a treasure trove of scientific knowledge (e.g., field scores, bat/ball/participant monitoring, video, biomechanics) into an data pipeline that helps us purchase higher gamers, enhance these gamers, and equip our coaches and gamers to emerge victorious.

The Cleveland Guardians strongly favor our teammates to reside in Cleveland, Ohio.  Distinctive candidates could also be thought-about for distant work.  We may also be versatile on begin dates.

Important Duties & Obligations

Information Scientists in our R&D group apply quantitative strategies to make the Cleveland Guardians higher on the sector.  Relying in your abilities and pursuits, your work might embrace:

Constructing statistical and/or machine studying fashions to information participant acquisitions, participant improvement philosophy, and Main League decision-making.
Growing fashions for the actions and forces governing human movement and its subsequent impression on bat/ball trajectories.
Creating instruments, prototypes, and visualizations that join R&D insights to coaches, gamers, and baseball operations workers.
Speaking advanced concepts clearly to each technical and non-technical audiences, together with executives, coaches, and gamers.

Schooling & Expertise

Diploma or demonstrated expertise in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Pc Science, Arithmetic, Economics, Biomechanics, or Engineering).
Proficiency in programming languages resembling Python or R for knowledge evaluation and modeling.
Skill to obviously talk advanced concepts to others in each written and verbal type.
Collaborative and ready to reach a team-oriented surroundings.
Dedication to steady studying and fixing difficult issues.

Job Expertise

We’re searching for quite a lot of skillsets.  In case you have expertise with a number of of the next areas, it’s possible you’ll be who we’re searching for:

Statistical Modeling

Superior statistical strategies (e.g., mounted results, random results, generalized additive fashions).
Bayesian statistics and probabilistic programming languages (e.g., Stan).
Database languages resembling SQL.

Machine Studying and AI

Giant language fashions (LLMs).
Deep studying frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Torch).
Excessive-dimensional and/or spatiotemporal knowledge.

Area-Particular Experience

Analysis in a sports activities context (baseball is a plus).
Biomechanics software program resembling OpenSim and Visual3D.
Recreation concept utilized in real-world contexts.

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On the Cleveland Guardians, we’re all about creating an surroundings that brings out the perfect in everybody. It’s a large a part of who we’re, how we compete, and the way we make an impression in our group. We wish each worker to really feel like they honestly belong right here.  

We additionally know that individuals generally hesitate to use for jobs except they examine each single field on the {qualifications} checklist. We’re searching for the perfect particular person for the job, and we all know that you simply would possibly convey abilities and experiences that aren’t precisely listed however may very well be an enormous asset to our workforce. So, if this position excites you, we encourage you to use, even when you don’t meet each single qualification.