Summer Intern - Sports Science

This is a Full Time Unpaid Internship

Sports Science Intern - Summer 2024 - Driveline Baseball (AZ and WA)

This application closes at 11:59pm PST on Sunday, February 11, 2024
Location: Kent, WA or Scottsdale, AZ
Type: Seasonal (3-9 months), Salaried
Wage: Paid stipend (between $2000-2500/month, DOE)
Hours: Full-Time
Starting Date: Start dates for the summer cohort can vary for each individual, but will land somewhere between April-June 2024. The exact start date will be decided during the hiring process based on individual's availability.

Driveline Baseball is the industry leader in applied biomechanics and training as it pertains to baseball player development - 40 interns and full-time employees have gone on to work as Directors, Coordinators, and other full-time positions in both Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball. Our paid internships are the gold standard across all of professional and collegiate baseball.
''Working at Driveline was an incredible opportunity and period of self development for me. Every day consisted of thought provoking, detailed, and collaborative work with people who had a passion for understanding and innovating. It's an environment where intelligently applied hard work leads to huge results.'' -Jesse Clingman, former Sports Science intern
You'll learn more here in six months than you would in six years anywhere else. Sports Science Interns report jointly to our Director of Research and Development (company founder, Kyle Boddy), and a full-time Sports Science employee. You'll be tasked with independent learning projects and have access to our educational tracks from our internal certification dashboard and courses.

We are seeking talented undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate interns who are interested in working hard in a fast-paced environment that features a mix of mature technologies/processes and cutting-edge new systems in baseball biomechanics and player development.

Interns with the following traits have historically had the best success at Driveline Baseball:
• Strong desire to learn new technologies and systems without being intimidated by complexity
• Willingness to adapt to a fast-paced environment where things can - and will - go wrong from time to time
• Excellent baseball feel - a history of coaching or on-field work goes a long way
• Understanding the unique opportunity afforded to them, and willingness to make the most of it

PRIMARY JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Operating our world-class motion capture laboratory - at first with supervision, but eventually graduating to lead control by the end of the internship
• Working on our research team to continuously improve our training outcomes through internal tests and investigations
• Auditing and writing code to improve our internal dashboards, pipelines, and report generating tools
• Writing regular documentation and attending department meetings
• Completing an individual project or study using our tools and data

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Candidates applying for this position should be able to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted repeatedly throughout the workday. Also, the physical requirements of this job require frequent walking around, demonstrating and assisting with exercise, throwing and lifting movements; bending, throwing, stretching, lifting, pushing, pulling and squatting are movements performed daily.

For those who have issues sitting down at a desk to perform their work, standing desks are provided.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Some proficiency with Python, PHP, R, SQL, DVCS (Git). The more, the merrier.
• Attach code samples, your GitHub repository, the books/courses you're taking - don't hold back.
• Demonstrated independent projects - either in school or at work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Computer literate and proficient with Microsoft Office and/or Google Docs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Extremely strong coding skills in one or more of the following languages: Python, R, or PHP.
• Previous motion capture lab experience. Operating, cleaning, coding, building. Tell us what you've done. Don't just list a place of work.
• Demonstrated independent sport science project(s)
• Formal education in kinesiology, exercise science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or similar fields
• Any work in formal research: peer-reviewed studies, academic papers, theses, dissertations, etc.
• Previous experience working with large datasets
• Bonus if it's our OpenBiomechanics Project. Show us what you've done with it.
• One or more seasons of experience with a college or professional athletics team - as a player, coach, or analyst (coach/analyst highly desired)

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.