Data Scientist II (Soccer)

Teamworks is a sports technology company that builds solutions for sports organizations worldwide. They are hiring a Data Scientist II to develop statistical and machine learning models for soccer recruitment, using player tracking and event data to identify undervalued players, support client-facing analysis, and help deploy reliable production models.

Responsibilities

Develop statistical and machine learning models that help professional soccer clubs identify undervalued players and strong recruitment targets

Use player tracking data to build spatio-temporal models that quantify player impact and skill

Build metrics and analyses that soccer teams rely on to make decisions, and support client-facing work by building tools to support model interpretation and understanding

Validate models and outputs — your own and others’ — with enough rigor that the team can trust what ships

Write clear reports that communicate technical work to clients

Partner with our engineering team to deploy models on cloud infrastructure and turn strong analytical work into reliable production systems

Review code from other data scientists, share constructive feedback, and contribute ideas that advance the team's work

Preferred

• You have direct experience with soccer data or soccer analytics (inside a team, public work, or academically)
• You have a demonstrated track record of tackling hard problems through published research, blog posts, conference talks, or public projects
• Experience using a cloud compute provider (e.g. AWS or Google Cloud) to train and deploy models
• Comfort using AI coding tools, paired with the judgment to recognize when their output needs to be questioned or corrected

Soccer Data

Soccer Analytics

Published Research

Conference Talks

Public Projects

Cloud Compute

AWS

Google Cloud

Train Models

Deploy Models

AI Coding Tools

Judgment

Benefits

Offers Equity

Offers Bonus

Remote work

Company

Operating system for sports, military, and public safety organizations

Durham, North Carolina, USA

http://www.teamworks.com/

Founded in 2005

501-1000 employees

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional or research experience writing code in R or Python for data science, statistics, or machine learning work
• Comfort with SQL for building and querying structured data
• Strong data science fundamentals: you understand how models work, what they need from the data, and how to set data up to support them
• Experience working with sports tracking data, including understanding the kinds of models typically built and the data challenges that come with them
• Strong communication skills — you'll be explaining modeling decisions directly to partner clubs, not just internal teammates
• This role is not eligible for sponsorship at this time.•
• You have direct experience with soccer data or soccer analytics (inside a team, public work, or academically)
• You have a demonstrated track record of tackling hard problems through published research, blog posts, conference talks, or public projects
• Experience using a cloud compute provider (e.g. AWS or Google Cloud) to train and deploy models
• Comfort using AI coding tools, paired with the judgment to recognize when their output needs to be questioned or corrected

Required skills

Represents the skills you have, click on the tags, R, SQL, Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Sports Tracking Data, Soccer Analytics, Spatio-temporal Modeling, Model Deployment

Experience

3+ years