What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quantitative Analyst, Applied Biomechanics position at Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Ops?
Title: Quantitative Analyst, Applied Biomechanics
Department: Baseball Solutions - Applied Biomechanics
Reports to: Manager, Applied Biomechanics or Manager, Foundational Research
Status: Regular Full-Time
Location: Philadelphia, PA or Clearwater, FL
Overview:
The Philadelphia Phillies are hiring a Quantitative Analyst to join our Applied Biomechanics team, with a focus on quantitative modeling and analysis. In this role, you’ll use biomechanical and/or high performance data to answer practical questions about player evaluation, development, and on-field outcomes. You’ll help translate complex data into clear, objective insights that support coaches, analysts, and decision-makers across the organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Build statistical models using athlete high performance, on-field performance, and biomechanical data.
- Develop metrics, tools, and visualizations to support player evaluation, player development, workload management, and gameplanning processes.
- Conduct research on relationships between tracking data and on-field outcomes.
- Help productionize analytical tools and maintain scalable research pipelines.
Required Qualifications:
- Proven experience creating high performance or biomechanical metrics and researching their relationship to on-field performance.
- Strong familiarity with supervised and unsupervised learning, regularization, model assessment and selection, model inference and averaging, ensemble methods, etc.
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, statistical software (R, SAS, or similar), and databases (BigQuery, MySQL).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with best practices in machine learning operations (Git, Docker, MLFlow, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience in handling, analyzing, and interpreting biomechanical data in sports.
- 1-5 years of relevant work experience.
- Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Sports Science, Data Science, or a related field.
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary & Benefits: A benefits package that includes health insurance, retirement plans (NUPP and 401k), paid time off, tickets to Phillies games, and the option of remote work.
- Access To The Cutting Edge: Exposure to advanced tools and proprietary data.
- Dynamic Team Environment: Work with a team committed to excellence.
- Personal Growth: Learn from colleagues within a supportive and driven environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.