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Main Goal
The Cleveland Guardians Baseball Analysis & Growth (R&D) group is searching for to rent Knowledge Scientists at a wide range 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 remodel 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 choose our teammates to reside in Cleveland, Ohio. Distinctive candidates could also be thought-about for distant work. We will also be versatile on begin dates.
Important Duties & Obligations
Knowledge 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 embody:
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 complicated concepts clearly to each technical and non-technical audiences, together with executives, coaches, and gamers.
Training & Expertise
Diploma or demonstrated expertise in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Laptop Science, Arithmetic, Economics, Biomechanics, or Engineering).
Proficiency in programming languages similar to Python or R for knowledge evaluation and modeling.
Capability to obviously talk complicated concepts to others in each written and verbal type.
Collaborative and in a position to reach a team-oriented surroundings.
Dedication to steady studying and fixing difficult issues.
Job Expertise
We’re on the lookout for a wide range of skillsets. In case you have expertise with a number of of the next areas, you might be who we’re on the lookout for:
Statistical Modeling
Superior statistical strategies (e.g., fastened results, random results, generalized additive fashions).
Bayesian statistics and probabilistic programming languages (e.g., Stan).
Database languages similar to 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 similar to OpenSim and Visual3D.
Sport principle 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 neighborhood. We would like each worker to really feel like they really belong right here.
We additionally know that folks generally hesitate to use for jobs except they verify each single field on the {qualifications} record. We’re on the lookout for the perfect individual for the job, and we all know that you simply may deliver abilities and experiences that aren’t precisely listed however may very well be an enormous asset to our staff. So, if this position excites you, we encourage you to use, even in the event you don’t meet each single qualification.
