Senior Data Scientist
Work summary:
The Senior Data Scientist’s responsibility is to build, maintain, test and communicate a variety of predictive models and analytics that will help inform all aspects of baseball operations.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build and support predictive models for player evaluation, player development, advanced scouting, and other baseball-related topics.
- Collaborate on the design and planning of new predictive models and assist others on machine learning and statistics projects.
- Assess the quality and predictive capabilities of new data sources.
- Work closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, and application developers to develop end-to-end analytics pipelines.
- Present conclusions and recommendations to others in baseball operations and incorporate their feedback.
- Help ensure baseball operations leaders have the latest information on player projections and statistics.
Required Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in statistics, data science, or related field.
- 3+ years of professional experience building predictive models using baseball data.
- Expertise in R and/or Python for data science.
- Expertise in SQL.
- Ability to independently apply machine learning, advanced statistical methods, and deep learning to solve business problems.
- Strong ability to communicate and explain statistical topics to a wide range of audiences.
- Experience interacting with clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
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