Job Posting: Toronto Blue Jays – Multiple Openings

Direct hyperlinks to purposes (please see job particulars under):

BiomechanistData ScientistPlayer Valuation Analysis AnalystSenior Information Engineer, Baseball SystemsSenior Developer, Baseball SystemsGeneral Baseball Operations Entry Stage Alternatives

Biomechanist

Overview:The Blue Jays are looking for a Biomechanist to hitch our Biomechanics workforce. This place works between Baseball Analysis, Participant Improvement, and Scouting to push our understanding of participant motion ahead. The best candidate may have expertise processing biomechanical information, discovering insights, and speaking these insights to non-technical customers.

Major Focus:

Conduct baseball biomechanical analysis and contribute to ongoing departmental analysis round participant efficiency and well being.
Create instruments that incorporate this analysis into resolution making, in addition to working to enhance these processes.

Duties and Duties: 

Course of biomechanical information, conduct information evaluation, interpretation, and dissemination of pitching and hitting biomechanics information to gamers and employees. Create reviews and visualizations to assist clarify findings. 
Design, check, implement and preserve metrics and predictive fashions utilizing biomechanical info to contribute to technique and choices in Participant Improvement and Scouting initiatives.
Collaborate with hitting, pitching, medical, energy and conditioning to include biomechanical findings into the participant improvement course of.
Hold updated with present public and tutorial analysis associated to the function and supply evidence-informed opinions (based mostly on biomechanics research) to contribute to resolution making.
Create new processes that combine different biomechanical and human efficiency datasets into current processes and modeling methods.

Expertise and Job Necessities:

Both a post-graduate diploma in biomechanics or demonstrated sensible information and understanding of biomechanical information.
Expertise with constructing pipelines to course of giant information units. 
Technical skill conduct evaluation and visualizations on giant information units.
Proficiency with R, Python or different comparable mathematical language is required.
Proficiency in Visual3D or Open Sim is required.
Expertise with scientific course of, design, and evaluation.
Glorious reasoning, drawback fixing, artistic pondering, and communication expertise at tactical and strategic ranges.
Interpersonal expertise to speak successfully with a variety of people from various cultures together with members of the entrance workplace, scouts, area employees, and gamers.
The power to work with multicultural populations and a dedication to equity and equality.
Potential to work occasional night, weekend, and vacation hours as dictated by the baseball calendar.

Helpful Expertise:

Associated work expertise and accomplishment in elite sport trade and expertise improvement is most popular.
Expertise with SQL or different rational databases is most popular.

To use: Please comply with this hyperlink: Biomechanist

Information Scientist

Overview:The Blue Jays are looking for a Information Scientist to hitch our workforce and push our group ahead by means of the utilization of cutting-edge information methodologies and rising expertise. The best candidate may have expertise taking information science issues from the concept/planning section by means of completion and implementation whereas collaborating with others.

Major Focus:

To conduct baseball analysis and contribute to ongoing departmental analysis.
To create instruments that incorporate information into the decision-making course of, in addition to studying how choices are made in all areas of Baseball Operations and dealing to enhance these processes.
To problem present technical processes, discover new information sources that would present aggressive benefits, and suggest novel methods to resolve data-intensive issues.

Duties and Duties:

Design, check, implement and preserve superior baseball metrics and predictive fashions to contribute to technique and choices throughout all departments inside Baseball Operations.
Conduct empirical analysis associated to baseball technique, participant analysis and participant improvement while understanding how findings would apply to raised resolution making and elevated operational effectiveness.
Provide technical experience to different members of the Baseball Analysis Division, offering constructive suggestions and steering.
Collaborate with the entrance workplace, coaches, and scouts whereas conducting analysis. Outcomes of this work ought to assist these inside the group higher perceive, take into account, and apply using info and information to their choices.
Work with the Improvement workforce to combine new info into current Baseball Operations processes and infrastructure.

Expertise and Job Necessities:

4+ years working within the information science area, constructing predictive fashions and speaking outcomes to non-technical customers.
Ardour for baseball and glorious reasoning, problem-solving, artistic pondering, and communication expertise.
Robust interpersonal expertise to speak successfully with a variety of people together with members of the entrance workplace, scouts, and area employees.
Demonstrated skill to efficiently design and execute rigorous quantitative analysis initiatives.
Robust understanding of present baseball analysis.
Proficiency with R, Python, or different comparable statistical language.
Proficiency with SQL and relational databases.
The power to work with multicultural populations and a dedication to equity and equality.
Potential to work occasional night, weekend, and vacation hours as dictated by the baseball calendar.

Helpful Expertise:

Ph.D. or Grasp’s diploma in a quantitative area.
Demonstrated expertise with:

Stan or one other probabilistic programming language.
Pc imaginative and prescient fashions and methods.
Machine studying strategies, together with clustering, boosting fashions, and neural networks.
Timeseries evaluation and biomechanical information.

To use: Please comply with this hyperlink: Information Scientist

Participant Valuation Analysis Analyst

Overview:The Blue Jays are looking for a Participant Valuation Analyst to hitch our Analysis workforce and help our participant analysis processes in collaboration with our Skilled and/or Beginner Scouting division. This place will primarily be office-based, leveraging video evaluation, internally developed instruments, and valuation methodologies. Whereas prior baseball expertise is a plus, it isn’t required. We’re on the lookout for candidates with robust analytical expertise, consideration to element, and the power to collaborate successfully throughout departments.

Major Focus:

Present goal participant valuations utilizing proprietary instruments and information.
Work throughout departments (Scouting, Participant Improvement, Analysis, and so on) to enhance our inside course of for evaluating gamers. 
Collaborate with scouts and analysts to tell participant evaluations throughout drafts, trades, and signings.

Duties and Duties:

Submitting scouting reviews on acquirable gamers based mostly on an intensive evaluation of accessible information and video belongings. 
Interrogating outputs of predictive fashions to determine probably undervalued acquirable gamers. 
Keep and improve current valuation fashions to make sure consistency and accuracy.
Work with scouts to validate and complement subjective evaluations with data-driven insights.
Monitor participant efficiency tendencies to determine undervalued expertise or areas of concern.
Keep up to date on the newest developments in baseball analytics and participant valuation methodologies.

Expertise and Job Necessities:

Familiarity with baseball guidelines, methods, and participant improvement pathways.
Expertise with video evaluation platforms and instruments (e.g., Synergy, BATS, or proprietary programs).
Glorious communication and collaboration expertise to work successfully with scouts and front-office personnel.
Potential to handle a number of initiatives and meet deadlines in a fast-paced setting.
Potential to work with multicultural populations and a dedication to equity and equality. 
Potential to work occasional night, weekend, and vacation hours as dictated by the baseball calendar.
Attainable journey of 10-20 nights per 12 months. 

Helpful Expertise: 

Earlier involvement in baseball analytics, participant improvement, or scouting (skilled or novice).
Working information of baseball projection programs. 
Proficiency with R, Python, or different comparable statistical language. 
Proficiency with SQL and relational databases. 
Expertise working with scouting reviews or baseball statistical databases
Expertise making use of coding skillset to enhance valuation fashions or develop customized instruments.

To use: Please comply with this hyperlink: Participant Valuation Analysis Analyst

Senior Information Engineer, Baseball Methods

Overview:The Toronto Blue Jays are looking for an skilled Information Engineer to hitch their Baseball Methods workforce to assist construct their subsequent era of databases and information processing programs. On this function you’ll work on difficult and compelling issues with among the largest and most fun datasets in sports activities. Your work will impression all the group from Analysis and Improvement by means of to Scouting, Participant Improvement, and the Main League workforce by giving employees and gamers entry to the complete vary of accessible info. 

Major Focus: 

To construct and preserve databases and different programs for storing baseball information. 
To construct processing pipelines to remodel information and extract helpful info. 
Optimize new and current information infrastructure to enhance efficiency and scalability. 

Duties and Duties:

Design and construct programs to retailer a rising quantity of statistical, ball monitoring, participant monitoring, and biomechanical information. 
Construct and preserve information pipelines for processing, reworking, and integrating giant volumes of baseball information from quite a lot of sources and monitoring programs. 
Develop programs for reporting, monitoring, and high quality management of incoming information to make sure that programs are performing as anticipated and the information conforms to required requirements. 
Perceive and doc database buildings, information codecs, definitions, and the constraints of present programs and set up future necessities. 
Oversee the analysis, choice, and rollout of latest software program and information infrastructure. 
Full ad-hoc database queries and evaluation as required by the circumstances. 
Present technical help to different Baseball Operations employees and collaborate with the Analysis workforce to make sure they’ve the information and assets required for his or her work. 
Advocate new information sources for buy and new methods to collect information. 

Expertise and Job Necessities:

Demonstrated expertise constructing and sustaining relational databases and information warehouses. 
Robust working information of SQL and database programming. 
Extremely proficient with Python (most popular) or one other general-purpose programming language for manipulating information. 
Information of database structure, design patterns, and finest practices to make sure system efficiency and long-term maintainability. 
Distinctive problem-solving expertise – finds pragmatic options to information and engineering challenges inside time or expertise constraints. 
Excessive consideration to element – anticipates and identifies potential points early and strives to provide dependable and high-quality work. 
Glorious interpersonal expertise and the power to successfully clarify complicated technical ideas to a variety of people. 
Potential to learn, communicate and comprehend English successfully. 
The power to work with multicultural populations and a dedication to equity and equality. 
Potential to work evenings, weekends, and vacation hours as dictated by the baseball calendar. 

Helpful Expertise:

Bachelor’s diploma in laptop science, laptop engineering, or different instructional {qualifications}. Larger stage tutorial {qualifications} are a plus. 
Expertise with a process orchestration framework equivalent to Airflow, Luigi, or Dagster. 
Expertise with cloud companies and infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP). 
Expertise with R programming and information visualization. 
Expertise working with baseball, sports activities, or biomechanics datasets is useful however not required. 

To use: Please comply with this hyperlink: Senior Information Engineer, Baseball Methods

Senior Developer, Baseball Methods

Overview:The Toronto Blue Jays are looking for a gifted and versatile Python developer to hitch our rising Analysis and Improvement workforce in Baseball Operations. On this function, you’ll assist to design and construct net purposes that empower the work of customers all through the group and instantly impression decision-making in areas such because the Entrance Workplace, Scouting, and Participant Improvement. 

Major Focus:

Design and construct new options of inside net purposes. 
Work with end-users to gather necessities and suggestions. 
Develop artistic approaches for displaying info. 

Duties and Duties:

Work intently with the Analysis & Improvement workforce so as to add new performance to our current suite of Python-based net purposes to speak their work to end-users. 
Design and construct new options to benefit from new information and video sources, inside analysis, or to allow different organizational initiatives. 
Contribute to code evaluation, software program testing, documentation, and upkeep of current programs as a part of a collaborative software program engineering workforce. 
Take part in technical decision-making that can form the subsequent era of the Blue Jays’ baseball programs. 

 Expertise and Job Necessities: 

Skilled developer with expertise designing and constructing net purposes. 
Extremely proficient with Python and a number of net frameworks equivalent to Django, Flask, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy or comparable. 
Robust understanding of foundational front-end net applied sciences (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
Understanding of database improvement and proficient in SQL (particularly MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL). 
Expertise utilizing Bootstrap and CSS preprocessors with the power to create front-end views matching designs or mock-ups. 
In a position to talk with non-technical customers to grasp their roles and necessities and suggest applicable options. 
Robust problem-solving expertise – finds pragmatic options to information and engineering challenges inside time or expertise constraints. 
Excessive consideration to element – anticipates and identifies potential points early and strives to provide dependable and high-quality work. 
Invested in studying and gaining new expertise, each technical and non-technical. 
Ardour for baseball and an curiosity in statistical and analytical features of the sport. 
The power to work with multicultural populations and a dedication to equity and equality. 
Potential to work evenings, weekends, and vacation hours as dictated by the baseball calendar.

Helpful Expertise:The next applied sciences or fields mirror potential initiatives for this function and expertise with any of them is useful however not required: 

Expertise with UI design and instruments equivalent to Figma or Adobe CC purposes. 
Information visualization utilizing libraries equivalent to D3, Plotly, Three.js, or ggplot. 
Expertise with extra general-purpose programming languages (PHP, Ruby, Java, C# or comparable). 
Entrance-end JavaScript frameworks equivalent to React, Angular or Vue. 
CSS preprocessors equivalent to SCSS, LESS or Stylus. 
DevOps and CI/CD expertise with Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions or comparable. 
Information manipulation, modelling, and visualization in R or Python. 

To use: Please comply with this hyperlink: Senior Developer, Baseball Methods

Normal Baseball Operations Entry Stage Alternatives

The Toronto Blue Jays are looking for extremely motivated and artistic people to help with day-to-day duties throughout numerous areas of Baseball Operations, together with Scouting, Participant Improvement, Excessive Efficiency, and Analysis & Improvement/Analytics. Begin and finish dates are versatile relying on the precise function, and we are going to take into account each full-season and partial-season candidates. These positions are paid and could also be based mostly in Toronto, ON; Dunedin, FL; or one in every of our affiliate areas throughout Canada, the US, or the Dominican Republic.

Key Qualities We’re Wanting For:

Ardour for baseball, with glorious reasoning, problem-solving, artistic pondering, and communication expertise
Robust interpersonal expertise to collaborate with a variety of people, from fellow employees to gamers
Potential to work independently, self-direct duties, and handle a number of initiatives with consideration to element
Efficient time administration expertise to steadiness priorities in a fast-paced setting
Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required by the baseball calendar

The Blue Jays see variety and employment fairness as foundational to making a profitable tradition. Candidates who could not historically really feel empowered to use for a job on this area are strongly inspired to use.There are a number of roles with totally different main focuses, with extra element on every broad sort of place offered under. You solely have to submit one utility to be thought-about for all potential roles. We are going to match your expertise and experiences to obtainable alternatives. When you have a selected space of curiosity, be at liberty to spotlight it in your utility.

You could obtain an electronic mail asking you to finish a extra detailed follow-up utility concerning your pursuits and employment objectives. Please be certain that baseballresumes@bluejays.com is allowed in your electronic mail system. 

Function Summaries

Participant Improvement TechnologyThis function is good for candidates desirous about working intently with coaches and gamers by means of embedding themselves with groups on the Blue Jays’ improvement complexes or associates. Key duties embody:

Serving as the purpose particular person for video, expertise, and information assets
Deploying and working expertise for recording information throughout each apply and sport settings
Organizing, cataloging, distributing, and reviewing video and information/advance assets for affiliate employees and different PD personnel
Serving to to trace participant objectives and progress over the course of the season and collaborating throughout departments (Minor League Operations, Diet, Excessive Efficiency) to help initiatives and processes
Aiding with on-field actions (batting apply, fungos, catching pens) and day-to-day logistical wants of the workforce as wanted

Proficiency in Microsoft Workplace is required; expertise with video enhancing software program and baseball-related information seize programs is useful. Spanish proficiency can be useful and could also be required in some instances.

Operations (Scouting, Baseball Operations, Participant Improvement)Candidates with glorious organizational expertise and a spotlight to element will help the logistical and administrative capabilities of the scouting, participant improvement, or baseball operations departments. Duties could embody:

Organizing, coming into, and sustaining information and/or video assets
Supporting departmental administrative duties (expense reviews, compiling statistics and rosters, assembly logistics, and so on.) and responding to ad-hoc logistical or organizational wants
Contributing to participant analysis processes by means of evaluation of video and information
Within the Participant Improvement division, extra duties could embody translating paperwork to/from English and Spanish, and aiding with integration of expertise into on-field work

Microsoft Workplace (particularly Excel) proficiency is essential; information of baseball guidelines and rules can be a robust asset. Spanish proficiency will probably be helpful (required in some instances). Proficiency with information administration and evaluation instruments like SQL, R, Python are additionally helpful however not required.

Advance ScoutingThis function entails supporting the Main League workforce with game-by-game and series-by-series preparation, utilizing robust baseball information to help with:

Accumulating and organizing statistics for scouting reviews, figuring out patterns in participant efficiency and workforce tendencies
Modifying and assembling video clips/visible displays related to approaching matchups
Conducting ad-hoc analysis and evaluation on gamers or the sport of baseball basically
Watching video to supply written evaluations and insights to teaching employees, serving to to form sport methods
Supporting on-field video and information assortment and working game-prep expertise 

Candidates with glorious information of baseball guidelines and technique and powerful time administration and organizational expertise will excel right here. Proficiency in video enhancing software program and instruments like R, Shiny, or comparable platforms is useful however not required.

Analysis & DevelopmentThis function is geared in direction of analytical thinkers captivated with utilizing information to uncover new insights in baseball. Key duties embody:

Conducting self-directed analysis utilizing R, Python, SQL or comparable instruments
Engaged on areas like information acquisition, group, and cleansing, in addition to statistical modeling and visualization
Presenting analysis findings to entrance workplace members, coaches, or gamers, making certain the work is accessible and actionable
Offering logistical help throughout main baseball occasions just like the Draft or Commerce Deadline

Along with the technological background talked about above, expertise with superior modelling methods or different specialised expertise (Pc Imaginative and prescient, AI, Bayesian Modeling, Anomaly Detection, Time Collection and so on.) could be helpful, however not obligatory.

Baseball Methods DevelopmentThis function focuses on creating and supporting inside net purposes and databases for Baseball Operations. Duties could embody:

Collaborating with finish customers to collect necessities, making certain programs meet operational wants
Engineering programs to amass and retailer new datasets, bettering information accessibility
Designing intuitive front-end net interfaces for inside baseball info programs
Experiencing and offering logistical help to key factors on the baseball calendar

Expertise with software program engineering, net improvement, and database administration is vital, and examples of related work will be useful in demonstrating your capabilities.

Biomechanics/Sports activities ScienceThis function is for candidates captivated with utilizing Biomechanics or Sports activities Science to uncover insights about baseball and keen to use their tutorial background to baseball. Duties could embody:

Conducting data-driven analysis, utilizing biomechanical information to tell participant enchancment methods
Working hands-on with gamers and employees to help data-collection and supply real-time suggestions on motion and efficiency
Staying up-to-date with the newest analysis in biomechanics, making use of insights to help Participant Improvement and Excessive Efficiency
Collaborating intently with R&D and Participant Improvement to align analysis with participant improvement objectives

Along with your tutorial background on this topic space, proficiency in statistical programming and information visualization is a plus however not required.

To use: Please comply with this hyperlink: Normal Baseball Operations Entry Stage Alternatives

We’re an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, nationwide origin, intercourse, sexual orientation, age, incapacity, gender id, marital or veteran standing, or some other protected class.

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