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Cloud Engineer
Major Alliance Strategy Researcher
Minor League Affiliated Fellow (Seasonal)
Cloud Engineer
Work summary:
The St. Louis Cardinals are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our baseball development team in St. Louis. Candidates should reside in or be willing to move to the St. Louis metro area. Candidates should also love baseball, enjoy being part of a small dynamic team, have a high degree of personal flexibility and responsibility, and compete with a growth mindset. We compete against other teams in our field just as our MLB players compete against other teams on the field. This position must have open flexibility during the season, including hours and availability.
Job Responsibilities:
The Cloud Engineer role will be a cross-functional one, balancing Google Cloud Platform systems engineering with software engineering and data engineering. Some example projects this position will work on:
- Analyze BigQuery processes to identify ways to improve performance and reduce costs
- Write a tool in Go to automate some common data engineering tasks
- Evaluate options to improve Kubernetes cluster resource utilization
- Extending our Python ETL framework to support new data sources
- Plan, test and upgrade database servers to the latest version
Other important job functions include:
- Maintain a small number of managed servers/services: Google Composer, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Carefully monitor cloud performance and costs
- Maintain a self-managed Microsoft SQL database server
Experience requirements:
- Learn more about Google Cloud Platform products and best practices
- Intermediate knowledge of Go or Python or two other programming languages
- Intermediate knowledge of Terraform or equivalent
- Growth mindset, self-motivation, curiosity, competition, collaboration
- Eager to help wherever it fits across the entire data stack, from ingestion to modeling to analysis to visualization
- Knowledge of cloud networking best practices, VPC network peering, etc. is helpful but not required
- Knowledge of database management, query analysis, etc. is helpful but not required
- Understanding data lifecycle processes, with a greater focus on accessibility and quality, is helpful but not required
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Major Alliance Strategy Researcher
Work summary:
The MLB Strategy Researcher role will utilize baseball development applications to identify actionable insights for MLB teams. This position will report to the MLB Analyst and will be based at the MLB Clubhouse in St. Louis. Need to travel to Jupiter for spring training. Although not always present in person, this person should be on the MLB team’s schedule from the beginning of spring training through the end of the MLB season.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provides MLB staff with detailed analysis of player data trends and deviations from their typical performance
- Provide strategic insights and recommendations based on baseball development information
- Become a point of contact for MLB Baseball Development staff with data-related questions and ideas
- Identifying new tools Baseball Development can build to better serve MLB teams
- Work with Baseball Development to build new predictive models or actionable metrics
- Build prototypes, or work with Baseball Development to build production versions of future automated reports and applications
- Assist in the collection, dissemination and utilization of video and data
- Assist the Baseball Development Department with quality control of reports and applications created and sent to MLB staff
Experience requirements:
- Strong communication skills clearly and concisely in both written and oral formats
- Ability to work effectively with various stakeholders in a fast-paced team environment
- Humility, curiosity, and the ability to interact effectively with others
- Experience with modern baseball data, including ball tracking, player tracking and body tracking data
- Demonstrated ability to communicate baseball technical data to non-technical audiences
- Experience communicating with baseball coaches and staff
- Familiarity with database query languages
- Knowledge of predictive modeling and machine learning concepts
- Proficiency in building easy-to-read data visualizations and reports is an advantage but not required
- Ability to build automated applications and/or websites is an advantage but not required
- Experience writing published articles and/or talking about modern baseball statistics on radio/podcast/TV preferred, but not required
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Minor League Affiliated Fellow (Seasonal)
Work summary:
The Minor League Affiliated Fellow will manage all aspects of video and technology at domestic minor league affiliate locations to support the minor league coaching staff (managers, hitting coaches, pitching coaches, etc.). Data collected from videos and technology will be used to provide player feedback for development. This location will be placed in One of our minor league affiliates during the 2026 season.
Pregame duties will include managing the assignment, setup and use of all baseball technology, as well as any pre-scout needs of the staff. This position will be in the dugout and manage the technical resources of the minor league coaches during games. Post-game tasks will ensure that all data and video collected during the day is available for reporting and analysis, creating reports for players and coaches as needed. This position will work directly with the Baseball Technical Department and report to the relevant minor league manager on day-to-day affiliate responsibilities.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong work ethic and impressive intellectual ability. This position is a Seasonal jobs for the 2026 season But may lead to full-time employment in baseball technology or other departments of baseball operations.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage baseball technology and video capture for affiliates (e.g. Trackman, Blast Motion, Edgertronic Camera, etc.).
- During the competition, according to staff needs:
- Manage in-game capture of technology and video in the lounge
- Quality assurance of video and data collected for analysis
- Set up a video camera for game recording
- Communicate any implementation issues not resolved through initial troubleshooting to the Baseball Technical Coordinator
- Attend spring training and travel with designated minor league team throughout season
Experience/Education Requirements:
- Graduate or senior students may begin work during spring training
- Ability to use and troubleshoot baseball or sports science technology (e.g. pairing portable track players with Edgertronic cameras, syncing wearable technology to mobile devices, etc.)
- Familiarity with and/or demonstrated willingness to learn technologies such as Blast Motion, Trackman, and video integration
- Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently
- Proficient in using computers, iPads and other electronic products
- Ability to work weekdays, evenings, weekends and holidays
- Candidates fluent in Spanish are preferred
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