Intern - Sports Science

This is a Part Time Unpaid Internship

Sports Science Intern (WA)

Location: Kent, WA
Type: Seasonal (6 months), Salaried
Wage: Paid stipend (between $2000-2500/month, DOE)
Hours: Full-Time
Starting Date: To be eligible for this position, you must be able to start between January 27th and February 21st. 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 the Coordinators of Sports Science and Information Technology. 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 individuals who are interested in working in a fast-paced environment that features a mix of cutting-edge technologies and systems within 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

PRIMARY JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Operating our world-class motion capture laboratory - at first with supervision, but eventually independently
• Maintaining and troubleshooting facility technologies
• Working with our 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
• Completing an individual project 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. The more, the merrier.
• Attach code samples, your GitHub repository, the books/courses you're taking - don't hold back.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated independent projects - either in school or at work.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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
• Previous experience working with large datasets
• Experience working with technical hardware (i.e. robotics, building a PC, etc)

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.

Application Questions (Required):
Please submit by uploading a file with your responses in the 'Questions' section.

1. What is your level of proficiency in conversational Spanish? (1 = Not Proficient at All, 5 = Native or Near-Native Speaker)

2. Describe your level of experience using marker-based or markerless biomechanical video capture systems, if any.

3. What are three books you've read in the last 12 months that have impacted your personal or professional life, and how did they change your thinking?

4. What is one area of growth for you over the next 12 months and what plans have you made to address that area?

5. What is one area that you think Driveline Baseball is not investigating that you think is a huge mistake? How can you help us look into that field of research?

6. What project have you worked on that you're most proud of? Attach supporting documentation in the question prompt below, if a text field is insufficient.

7. Supporting documentation for the previous question (optional)

8. Why do you want to work at Driveline Baseball, and what do you hope to get out of the internship when it's all said and done?

9. What is the toughest problem you've had to solve in the field of mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, or biomechanics? Did you solve it? If so, how? If not, what was the limiting factor, and what did you learn?

10. How much experience do you have with relational databases, like MariaDB / MySQL / PostgreSQL? What are some projects where you've interacted with these technologies? Have you had to manage a database server, or just interact with it as a client?

11. Can you work at the Kent, WA location?

12. What would your earliest on-site start day be?