Soccer Data Scientist II: Player Recruitment & Modeling

Teamworks; United States; On-site; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Teamworks is hiring a Data Scientist II to develop statistical and machine learning models for professional soccer clubs, focusing on undervalued players and recruitment targets. You will work with player tracking data and event data to quantify impact, build interpretable tools, and validate models across the lifecycle.

You''ll collaborate with engineering to deploy models on cloud infrastructure, review code, and communicate technical decisions to clients.

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.

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.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Data science fundamentals

Sports data

Communication

Job description

Teamworks is hiring a Data Scientist II to develop statistical and machine learning models for professional soccer clubs, focusing on undervalued players and recruitment targets. You will work with player tracking data and event data to quantify impact, build interpretable tools, and validate models across the lifecycle.

You''ll collaborate with engineering to deploy models on cloud infrastructure, review code, and communicate technical decisions to clients.