Remote Soccer Data Scientist II - Player Analytics & ML

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Teamworks is hiring a Data Scientist II on the Soccer team to build statistical and ML models used for player recruitment. You’ll handle models across the full lifecycle from design to deployment, using player tracking and event data to identify undervalued players and profile skills that drive performance.

The role requires 3+ years of professional or research experience in Python or R, strong SQL skills, and familiarity with sports tracking data.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional or research experience writing code in R or Python for data science, statistics, or machine learning work.
• Strong SQL for building and querying structured data.
• Experience with sports tracking data and temporal/spatial data challenges.
• Ability to design rigorous model evaluations and prevent data leakage.

Responsibilities

• Develop statistical and machine learning models using Python or R on soccer data.
• Own model lifecycle from design and validation to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics to productionize workflows.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Statistics

Tools

AWS

Git

Google Cloud

Job description

Teamworks is hiring a Data Scientist II on the Soccer team to build statistical and ML models used for player recruitment. You’ll handle models across the full lifecycle from design to deployment, using player tracking and event data to identify undervalued players and profile skills that drive performance.

The role requires 3+ years of professional or research experience in Python or R, strong SQL skills, and familiarity with sports tracking data.