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Quantitative Sports Researcher – Graduate Hire

A graduate research role in a sports analytics team building forecasting models that support pricing in sports betting markets.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Research sports outcomes and test ideas on industry data
Write programs to implement and simulate models
Discuss results with researchers, traders and technologists
Maintain models as new data arrives

What they ask for

Required

Master's or PhD in a quantitative field
Analytical problem solving
Practical programming
Sports analytics project experience
Knowledge of US and world sports
Communication

Education: Graduating master's or PhD students in a quantitative field
Experience: New graduates with sports analytics projects
Markets: prediction-markets

How to prepare

Build and calibrate a simulation model for a sport
Compare your probabilities with betting-market odds and explain differences
Revise Bayesian models and hierarchical estimation
Show a public analytics project in your portfolio

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and doesn’t handle applications.