Location: Kent, WA or Remote
Seasonal, $2500/mo.
No additional benefits.

Start Date: As early as May 1st, 2021
End Date: Approximately September 1st, 2021, but exceptional applicants may be offered an extension

(End date is flexible.)

Candidates will be expected to work ~40 hours per week.

If a candidate decides to relocate to Kent, WA, no financial relocation assistance is offered. However, we will put you in contact with a number of affordable short-term housing options upon accepting the role, if offered.

*** APPLICATIONS DUE BY 3/1/2021 ***

You will spend your time helping our trainers and athletes make more informed programming decisions and objective evaluations by providing insights via research and built out reports / tools.

With direct access to our coaches, players, and a variety of different training technologies that few labs in the world can match, you will rarely find a more hands-on and directly impactful internship in baseball than the one we are offering. R&D interns are expected to work on internal projects that push the limits of knowledge in the baseball training space.

You'll work on projects like:
- Generating and developing reports for athletes and trainers: both general department-level KPI’s and player specific true-talent metrics derived from the latest validated baseball technology and Driveline’s in-house proprietary models.
- Collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data for existing and new research projects, ranging from physical data collection for peer-reviewed studies to internal database cleaning and restructuring of ETL-loading scripts .
- Writing blog posts and creating social media content to document findings.
-Answering discrete internal R&D based questions and requests from the pitching floor, hitting floor, HP floor, and various other internal/external sources on topics ranging from biomechanics to sabermetrics.

This isn't a front office "hidden" position where you crank out data and no one is counting on you - you will be interfacing daily with professional athletes and coaches.

This is an opportunity to advance your career and knowledge base while being paid.

A GREAT CANDIDATE DEMONSTRATES
- Quantitative skill and experience in major programming languages, like R or Python (with a special focus on data visualization and data analysis packages)
- Experience with building, maintaining and exploring databases (MySQL Experience preferred)
- Open source project work on GitHub or openly published preprints/blogs to review. We want to know that you have contributed to the greater baseball research community in some way on your own.
- Previous experience coaching or playing baseball.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Excellent "feel". That mix of empathy, common sense and likability that makes people trust you.
- A mindset for growth and learning with an ability to stay organized / manage multiple projects at the same time.
- Proactively finds creative solutions to wide-ranging problems.

WHAT IS NOT REQUIRED
- Any form of college education. We care more about the skills you have in the present rather than where you learned them from.  

REQUIREMENTS:
- Familiarity with Driveline's mission, previous research, and blog posts.
- Passion for getting it right. "Smart people know how hard it is to know something."
- Ability to work independently.
- Must be able to stand for 4+ hours straight.
- Must be able to lift 50+ pounds.

END OF INTERNSHIP
Full-time roles are not guaranteed at the end of the internship. Candidates will be evaluated on an individual basis for full-time roles or internship extensions.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Driveline is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, creed, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under local, state, or federal laws. For employees and applicants for employment who have disabilities, Driveline provides reasonable accommodation.