Job Posting: Pittsburgh Pirates – Multiple Openings

Direct links to applications (please see job details below): Software Engineer Product Manager – Research and Development Analyst – Coaching and Player Development Software Engineer The Pirates Why The Pittsburgh Pirates are a storied franchise in Major League Baseball who are reinventing themselves on every level. Boldly and relentlessly pursuing excellence by: purposefully developing a player and people-centered culture; deeply connecting with our fans, partners, and colleagues; passionately creating lifetime memories for generations of families and friends; and meaningfully impacting our communities and the game of baseball. At the Pirates, we believe in the power of a diverse workforce and strive to create an inclusive culture centered in Passion, Innovation, Respect, Accountability, Teamwork, Empathy, and Service. Job Summary We are seeking a talented and motivated Software Engineer to join our Baseball Systems team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain the software systems that support baseball operations and team initiatives. You will deliver full-stack features, including APIs, backend services, and frontend components, while continuing to deepen your technical expertise, system knowledge, and ownership. You will collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions. Your work will help provide reliable, maintainable, and accessible tools that support analysts, coaches, front office staff, and other users across the organization. These tools directly impact decisions related to a wide variety of baseball operations like draft picks, trades, game play decisions, and player development. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain full-stack features, including APIs, backend services, and frontend components. Propose technical approaches and create planning documents for feature requests. Collaborate with product managers, analysts, researchers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and help translate them into effective technical solutions. Write and maintain tests, documentation, and supporting materials to ensure code quality and reliability. Participate actively in code reviews by incorporating feedback and offering thoughtful suggestions that improve implementation quality. Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, while working to identify and address potential issues before they affect users or systems. Share knowledge and pair with teammates to strengthen team practices and collective system understanding. Qualifications: Candidates need not meet every qualification listed to be considered; we welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds who are excited about this opportunity. Authorized to work lawfully in the United States. Experience with Typescript/Javascript, SQL, React, NodeJS, and/or Python Experience designing or consuming APIs and implementing user-facing application features. Experience in testing practices, version control, code review, and maintainable software design. Demonstrated problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and clear communication. Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Authorized to work lawfully in the United States. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, CI/CD, or related DevOps practices. Experience developing internal tools, data-rich applications, and dynamic, complex data visualizations using libraries like Plotly and D3 Knowledge of baseball statistics and how technology, data, and analytics inform strategy and performance Equal Opportunity Employer The Pittsburgh Pirates are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. To Apply To apply, please follow this link. Product Manager – Research and Development The Pirates Why The Pittsburgh Pirates are a storied franchise in Major League Baseball who are reinventing themselves on every level. Boldly and relentlessly pursuing excellence by: purposefully developing a player and people-centered culture; deeply connecting with our fans, partners, and colleagues; passionately creating lifetime memories for generations of families and friends; and meaningfully impacting our communities and the game of baseball. At the Pirates, we believe in the power of a diverse workforce and strive to create an inclusive culture centered in Passion, Innovation, Respect, Accountability, Teamwork, Empathy, and Service. Job Summary The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a Product Manager to join Baseball R&D and help our teams identify and solve the most important problems for baseball decision-makers. You will work on a cross-functional team with engineers, data scientists, analysts, biomechanists, and baseball experts. Many of our products are data- and model-driven, combining statistical or machine-learning models with software and workflows to improve decisions across areas such as player development, coaching, and Major League strategy. You will have broad ownership and substantial autonomy to understand users, shape priorities, challenge assumptions, and help the team discover effective solutions. Responsibilities: Create clarity around what matters most. Work with R&D leadership and your team to define meaningful outcomes, establish priorities, and ensure the team understands what it should focus on and why. Develop a deep understanding of our users and their problems. Learn how baseball decisions are made, understand the workflows and constraints surrounding them, and work with stakeholders to get to the root of the problem. Help the team discover effective solutions. Partner with engineers, data scientists, analysts, baseball experts, and users to explore ideas, test assumptions, reduce uncertainty, and adapt as you learn. Solutions may involve software, analytical models, new data, changes to workflows, or some combination of these. Keep important work moving. Protect the team’s focus on the highest-leverage problems and partner closely with Domain Leads, who bring technical and domain expertise, to make tradeoffs explicit, sequence work realistically, and intervene when high-priority work stalls or ownership is unclear. Measure impact and learn from what we build. Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to understand whether our products are improving decisions and workflows, and use those insights to shape future priorities and direction. Build alignment on process and philosophy. Work with other product managers in R&D to align on best practices for process and product management. Qualifications: We don’t expect any candidate to have done all of these things. We’re interested in people who can demonstrate several of these experiences or capabilities and who have the curiosity and ability to grow into the others: Authorized to work lawfully in the United States. Owned meaningful product problems end to end , from understanding the user need through discovery, prioritization, launch, and iteration. Made difficult prioritization decisions when multiple valuable opportunities competed for limited time or resources. Used discovery and evidence to change direction , drawing on user research, experiments, usage data, or other signals rather than simply executing an initial plan. Worked closely with engineers, data scientists, or other technical experts on products where data, analytics, or models were a meaningful part of the solution. You do not need to build the models yourself, but you should be comfortable understanding their capabilities and limitations and helping turn them into useful products. Operated with high agency and a hands-on approach , identifying important problems and finding practical ways to reduce uncertainty and move them forward. Demonstrated a genuine interest in baseball and an ability to learn complex domains deeply. You do not need previous professional baseball experience, but you should be excited to learn how baseball decisions are made and have evidence that you can become fluent enough in an unfamiliar domain to make good product decisions within it. Desired: Building data, analytics, AI/ML, or decision-support products. Working with expert users or in technically complex domains. Working on a startup or small product team with broad ownership. A demonstrated passion for sports technology and/or sports analytics. Experience with rapid prototyping, software development, SQL, and/or cloud technologies. Working in agile development environments. Equal Opportunity Employer The Pittsburgh Pirates are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. To Apply To apply, please follow this link. Analyst – Coaching and Player Development The Pirates Why The Pittsburgh Pirates are a storied franchise in Major League Baseball who are reinventing themselves on every level. Boldly and relentlessly pursuing excellence by: purposefully developing a player and people-centered culture; deeply connecting with our fans, partners, and colleagues; passionately creating lifetime memories for generations of families and friends; and meaningfully impacting our communities and the game of baseball. At the Pirates, we believe in the power of a diverse workforce and strive to create an inclusive culture centered in Passion, Innovation, Respect, Accountability, Teamwork, Empathy, and Service. Job Summary Support Coaching and Player Development (CPD) by turning performance data, research, and video into clear player evaluations and actionable development insights. This role will help coaches and CPD leadership identify player priorities, monitor progress, and make informed development decisions. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical skills, baseball knowledge, and the ability to communicate clearly with coaches. Working within Player Analysis and closely with Research and Development (R&D), this analyst will produce reliable analysis, maintain useful reporting, and help staff apply organizational research and tools in their daily work. Responsibilities: Analyze player performance using tracking data, statistical models, video, and other available information to identify strengths, limitations, and development opportunities. Evaluate hitter/pitcher tendencies and other assigned areas of player performance, accounting for pitch characteristics, game context, competition level, and sample size. Translate research and analytical findings into practical recommendations that support player evaluations, development plans, and CPD decisions. Support the player plan process by helping coaches identify objective focus metrics, establish baselines, document priorities, and update measures of progress. Monitor performance trends and communicate meaningful changes to the appropriate staff in a timely manner, distinguishing likely skill changes from short-term variation. Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and visualizations that answer coaching questions clearly and are accessible through organizational systems, including Bridge as appropriate. Use current R&D research and models in CPD reporting; work with R&D to understand assumptions, resolve questions, and provide feedback on tools and analysis. Partner with product and technical teams on durable reporting solutions; automate recurring work and validate data quality before sharing results. Maintain reproducible code, version-controlled analysis, and clear workflow documentation in organizational systems such as DevOps or GitHub. Help coaches interpret reports and use analytical tools independently; seek feedback on whether the information is understandable and useful in practice. Complete timely analysis for player meetings, offseason planning, Spring Training, and other CPD projects as assigned; communicate priorities and handle player information with discretion. Qualifications Required: Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, data science, sports analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Demonstrated ability to complete analytical projects from a defined question through data preparation, analysis, and clear communication of findings. Proficiency in Python or R and working knowledge of SQL for accessing, cleaning, joining, and analyzing data. Understanding of statistical reasoning, sample size, uncertainty, and the limitations of observational data. Working knowledge of baseball performance analysis and a strong interest in player development. Ability to explain technical information in practical language and collaborate effectively with coaches, analysts, and other staff. Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through; ability to manage recurring work alongside time-sensitive requests. Availability to support the baseball schedule, including nights, weekends, holidays, and travel as required by the role. Desired: Experience working with baseball tracking data, player development reports, or performance analysis in a team or comparable setting. Experience building dashboards, interactive visualizations, or automated reporting workflows for end users. Familiarity with Git-based version control, documented analytical workflows, and collaboration with software or product teams. Experience applying statistical models to player evaluation, monitoring performance over time, or assessing development outcomes. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are integral to who we are as an organization. We believe that our workforce should reflect the vast diversity of the communities we serve and that diverse voices should be elevated and intentionally integrated into our work. Even if you feel as if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications, we still strongly encourage you to apply. To Apply To apply, please follow this link. The content in this posting was created and provided solely by the Pittsburgh Pirates.