Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) is a leader in live entertainment, delivering unforgettable experiences while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences. The Company’s portfolio includes a collection of world-renowned venues – New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre – that showcase a broad array of sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events for millions of guests annually. In addition, the Company features the original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for 90 years. More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com.
Who are we hiring?
The New York Knicks are looking to expand the capability and impact of their performance science team and are looking for a Data/Full Stack Engineer with expertise in biomechanics-focused data. This individual will design, develop, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines that support our biomechanics research, general performance science research, and product development. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, experience working with biomechanical data, experience with front-end development and a passion for engineering data-driven solutions to support player performance.
What will you do?
- Develop the integration of new performance science data sources into our database infrastructure.
- Design and implement pipelines with a focus on collecting, processing, relating, and optimizing large volumes of raw kinematic data for analysis.
- Develop algorithms and data processing techniques to derive useful metrics for insight from marker-less motion capture data, enhancing our understanding of player biomechanics, injury prevention, and performance optimization.
- Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance, ensuring optimal data flow and processing.
- Design principles and workflows for data quality management including systems for outlier and anomaly detection
- Conduct database audits to ensure long-term viability of infrastructure and identify dataset strengths and weaknesses
- Engineer front-end systems for practitioners to interface with performance science reporting and insight
- Collaborate with data scientists on feature engineering to support long-term quantitative research
What do you need to succeed?
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or a related field (or relevant work experience)
- 3+ year’s experience as a Data or Full Stack Engineer (or similar field) with specific expertise in processing biomechanical data
- Proficiency in Python, R, SQL and relevant data engineering tools.
- Familiarity with Python based application building (using Python Dash).
- Familiarity and experience in one or more of JavaScript (React, Angular, or Vue.js framework), CSS, and HTML
- Familiarity with AWS Redshift and Cloud based architecture
- Expertise developing SQL based ETL/ELT applications
- Experience building API integrations using FastAPI, Flask or other similar framework
- Proficiency using version control systems such as Git or Bitbucket for collaborative software development or code management
- Understanding of human kinematics applied to a high-performance setting
- Passion for basketball and desire to leverage data in optimizing player performance
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What We Do
MSG Entertainment is a world leader in live entertainment, comprised of world-renowned venues and marquee brands. Utilizing our powerful assets and expertise, we produce, present, or host a variety of entertainment and sports events, delivering unforgettable experiences for millions of fans each year. Across our venues and brands, MSG Entertainment sets the standard for excellence and innovation while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences.
Our Company includes our portfolio of iconic venues: New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre – each a prominent destination for unforgettable experiences and events. With flexible seating capacities and configurations that range from 2,800 to 21,000, our venues enable us to showcase a broad array of compelling sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events that cover a wide spectrum of genres. This includes at Madison Square Garden, known as “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” which serves as home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers – two of the most recognized franchises in professional sports – and perennially hosts the biggest names in music and entertainment.
MSG Entertainment also features the wholly-owned original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for generations of fans at Radio City Music Hall since 1933. The show’s enduring popularity is driven by the world-famous Radio City Rockettes, the longest-running precision dance company in America.
More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com
