Senior Data Scientist
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis, MOThis was removed by the employer on 11/25/2025 9:38:00 PM PST
This is a Full Time Job
Job Summary:
The role of the Senior Data Scientist will be to build, maintain, test, and communicate a wide variety of predictive models and analyses that will help to inform all aspects of baseball operations.
Job Duties:
• Build and support predictive models for player evaluation, player development, advance scouting, and other baseball-related topics.
• Collaborate in the design and planning of new predictive models and assist others with machine learning and statistical projects.
• Evaluate new sources of data for quality and predictive power.
• Work closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, and application developers in developing end to end analytical pipelines.
• Present conclusions and recommendations to others in Baseball Operations and incorporate their feedback.
• Help ensure that leaders in Baseball Operations have up to date information in terms of player projections and statistics.
Education/Experience Required:
• Bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in statistics, data science or related field.
• 3 years professional experience using baseball data to build predictive models.
• Expertise in R and/or Python for data science.
• Expertise in SQL.
• Ability to independently apply machine learning, advanced statistical methods, and deep learning to solve business problems.
• Strong ability to communicate and explain statistical topics to a wide variety of audiences.
• Experience interacting with the cloud such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
