Research Engineer

Title:                              Research Engineer

Department:               Baseball Operations

Status:                          Full-Time

Pay Rate:                     $120,000 - $130,000/year*

Reports to:                  Senior Director, Baseball Systems Platforms

*Compensation rates vary based on job-related factors, including experience, job skills, education, and training.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Systems team is committed to building and maintaining the technological platforms for baseball data, analysis, and decision-making for the Dodgers, and to providing technical expertise and advice across Dodger Baseball Operations. We focus on both the tools needed to put a winning team on the field today and those we need to ensure a winning future. We design, implement, and maintain the processes that bring in game, tracking, and scouting data, make them available to the rest of the Dodgers, and in turn re-ingest output from analytics to make that available as well.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Quantitative Analysis team is responsible for researching and developing metrics and tools that enhance decision-making throughout Baseball Operations. We design, implement, and maintain the models used to inform decisions about player personnel, player development, and on-field strategy.

The Research Engineer will join the Baseball Systems team to support the Quantitative Analysis team in integration of modeling results with intra- and inter-department products. You will be responsible for building tools to develop and deploy machine learning models, automating solutions to ensure data quality, developing and applying design patterns to research products to ease productization, and reviewing our existing code base to identify and execute improvements.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Implement and document procedures for productization and automation of existing Quantitative Analysis products, bridging the gap between internal teams
• Collaborate with researchers in areas such as player projection and pitch classification to update task and data modeling of current research implementations to fit within production automation frameworks
• Produce optimized models and products that enable scalability within our internal website, scouting reports, and other products with varying degrees of granularity.
• Investigate existing codebases to identify and implement improvements proactively for creation of and integration with future engineering products; make decisions on how to improve existing product and identify time effective changes
• Design, implement, and test tools to support the prototyping, development, functional testing, and performance testing of new Quantitative Analysis products
• Develop product documentation and procedures
• Apply statistical models for data quality testing and outlier detection in a rapidly changing environment which is continually under development; address data quality issues, calibrating and cleaning data and identifying data that cannot be trusted
• Provide technical recommendations to and review work of other team members

Basic Requirements/Qualifications:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 3 years of software development experience, with experience with backend automation, batching, and scheduling frameworks preferred
• Willing and able to commute or travel for on-site work in Los Angeles as needed
• Experience with Python, Bash, and other scripting languages
• Experience with SQL query design and optimization (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Experience with cloud-based and distributed computing (AWS preferred)
• Experience with data modeling
• Familiarity with public research in baseball analytics
• Excellent problem-solving
• Ability to communicate and influence executives and others in the use data and products

You should definitely contact us if:

• You want to work together to build and maintain an industry-leading team
• You are enthusiastic about baseball, and you want to see your work reflected on the field and in the box score

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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