What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Quantitative Analyst position at Los Angeles Dodgers?
Title: 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
Current Los Angeles Dodgers employees should apply via the internal job board in UltiPro by following these prompts:
MENU > MYSELF > MY COMPANY > VIEW OPPORTUNITIES > select the position > CONSENT > APPLY NOW
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Salary : $75,000 - $85,000