R&D Intern

Driveline Baseball•Kent, WA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Driveline Baseball is the industry leader in applied biomechanics and training as it pertains to baseball player development. Our paid internships are the gold standard across all of professional and collegiate baseball. We are seeking talented individuals who are interested in working in a fast-paced environment that features a mix of cutting-edge technologies and systems within baseball biomechanics and player development. Interns with the following traits have historically had the best success at Driveline Baseball: Strong desire to learn new technologies and systems without being intimidated by complexity. Willingness to adapt to a fast-paced environment where things can - and will - go wrong from time to time.

Requirements

Proficiency with Linux (CLI primarily) and Windows (Powershell experience a plus).
Proficiency with Python, PHP, and/or SQL.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong desire to embrace agentic development methods with some experience using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and/or OpenCode in both interactive and non-interactive ways.
Strong willingness and desire to use the command line interface and text user interfaces for the majority of your technical work.
Demonstrated independent projects - school, work, or best of all, for the love of the game. Need not be baseball-related.
Available on-site in Kent, WA.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Candidates applying for this position should be able to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted repeatedly throughout the workday.
The physical requirements of this job require frequent walking around, demonstrating and assisting with exercise, throwing and lifting movements; bending, throwing, stretching, lifting, pushing, pulling and squatting are movements performed daily.

Nice To Haves

Previous motion capture lab experience. Operating, cleaning, coding, building.
Demonstrated independent biomechanics project(s).
Formal education in kinesiology, exercise science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or similar fields. If informal, how did you study? Why did you study informally?
Strong coding skills in one or more of the following languages: Python, PHP or Java Script.
Previous experience working with large datasets.
Experience working with technical hardware (i.e. robotics, building a PC, etc).

Responsibilities

Monitoring and troubleshooting biomechanics pipelines across all our labs both onsite and remote.
Contributing code to the pipeline and the infrastructure around it.
Working closely with our team to continuously improve our training outcomes through internal research and investigations.
Pushing agentic coding, infrastructure, and analytical capacities beyond the bleeding edge.