DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:
The Baseball Sciences division leverages cutting-edge analysis, information, and know-how to reinforce participant efficiency, improvement, and general group success. By integrating ideas from biomechanics, sports activities science, information analytics, and synthetic intelligence, the division performs a crucial function in driving innovation on and off the sector. The group works intently with coaches, medical employees, power & conditioning consultants, and front-office personnel to develop and implement evidence-based methods that maximize athletic potential, enhance participant well being, and optimize in-game efficiency. The Baseball Sciences division is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of sports activities science in baseball, placing the Purple Sox on the forefront of technological and analytical developments within the sport.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Boston Purple Sox are looking for a forward-thinking Baseball Sciences Affiliate for the 2025 season to drive the event and software of progressive options geared toward bettering on-field efficiency and harm danger mitigation. The function will help the processing, evaluation, and software of varied related information sources, together with movement seize information, power plates, wearable sensors, and pc imaginative and prescient evaluation. These efforts will drive the implementation of evidence-based methods throughout the group in collaboration with stakeholders in Energy & Conditioning, Sports activities Medical Companies, and Participant Growth.
The place will run all through the 2025 season. Desire can be given to candidates obtainable from February to October, although flexibility in dates can be thought-about for the appropriate candidate. The anticipated location for this place is Fort Myers, FL. Nevertheless, candidates with sturdy biomechanics modeling and musculoskeletal simulation experience could also be based mostly in Boston, MA, to allow nearer collaboration with our Boston-based Lead Biomechanist.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Pursuing or just lately accomplished an undergraduate or superior diploma (i.e., MS, MA, Ph.D.) in a related subject similar to information science, pc science, pc imaginative and prescient, biomechanics, engineering, statistics, utilized math, physics, quantitative social sciences, or operations analysis.
Proficiency with trendy database applied sciences together with SQL.
Demonstrated expertise with programming languages R and/or Python for information manipulation, evaluation, and reporting.
Prior expertise/publicity to biomechanical information.
Expertise with pc imaginative and prescient or OpenSim is a plus.
Along with the above necessities, all roles inside Baseball Operations are anticipated to successfully display our common competencies associated to drawback fixing, teamwork, readability of communication, and time administration, together with embodying our tradition of honesty, humility, relentlessness, and dedication to DEIB.
