Basketball Data Scientist

April 15

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $120k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Swish Analytics

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Swish Analytics is a company that specializes in machine learning for US sports betting and fantasy sports. They deliver accurate, algorithm-driven predictions and tools to help improve betting strategies across major sports leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL. Swish Analytics offers tools like lineup optimizers for daily fantasy sports and is an Authorized MLB Data Distributor to U. S. sports betting operators. Their team consists of data scientists, machine-learning engineers, and developers dedicated to providing powerful analytics and innovative solutions for the sports betting and gaming industry.

Sports Analytics • sports betting • gambling

11 - 50 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

💰 $6.9M Series B on 2019-05

📋 Description

• Swish Analytics is hiring Basketball Data Scientists to join our ever-growing team! • Data Science is at the core of our business, so this team has true ownership and impact over developing core components of Swish's data products. • Ideate, develop and improve machine learning and statistical models that drive Swish’s core algorithms for producing state-of-the-art sports betting products. • Develop contextualized feature sets using sports specific domain knowledge. • Contribute to all stages of model development, from creating proof-of-concepts and beta testing, to partnering with data engineering and product teams to deploy new models. • Strive to constantly improve model performance using insights from rigorous offline and online experimentation. • Analyze results and outputs to assess model performance and identify model weaknesses for directing development efforts. • Adhere to software engineering best practices and contribute to shared code repositories. • Document modeling work and present to stakeholders and other technical and non-technical partners.

🎯 Requirements

• Masters degree in Data Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science or related technical subject area; PhD highly preferred • Demonstrated experience developing models at production scale for baseball or sports betting • Expertise in Probability Theory, Machine Learning, Inferential Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods • Minimum of 4+ years of demonstrated experience developing and delivering effective machine learning and/or statistical models to serve business needs in sports or sports betting • Experience with relational SQL & Python • Experience with source control tools such as GitHub and related CI/CD processes • Experience working in AWS environments etc • Proven track record of strong leadership skills. Has shown ability to partner with teams in solving complex problems by taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions • Excellent communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer. • Successful completion of background and reference checks may be required.