Performance Science Associate

Houston Astros

This role is designed to take on very specific, technical projects centered around extracting as much value from markerless motion capture data as possible.  The day to day of this role will largely depend on the current project being taken on.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist the Director of Performance Sciences with highly specialized projects to meet department objectives (e.g. custom filtering processes, speeding up data pipelines, etc.).
• Keep up to date with relevant human pose estimation methods to ensure accurate representation.
• Educate fellow Performance Science staff members on relevant biomechanical research methods.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Proficient knowledge in kinesiology / exercises science / strength and conditioning performance principles
• Proficient knowledge in statistical programming language (R, Python)
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Experience in collecting, analyzing, and visualizing 3D motion capture data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Track record of visualizing kinetic and kinematic data in novel and intuitive ways
• Knowledge of human pose and computer vision models