Intern - Performance Testing

About the position

The Performance Testing internship opportunity will design, conduct, and analyze experimental approaches to replicate adverse conditions witnessed on the course within our controlled test environments. You will create standard operating procedures (SOPs) for how to test each club in the bag in adverse conditions such as wet, rough, that aligns with experimentally collected data. Reports detailing experimental approach and statistical alignment verifying designed SOPs should be expected.

Responsibilities

• Experimental design and data collection (outdoors with players and indoors within our test environment; including use of our robot)
• Rigorous analysis and understanding of experimental results to drive next steps
• Programming to manipulate, store, analyze, and report data
• Frequent interaction with stakeholders from multiple small teams within RDE (i.e. ball team, irons, MW, wedge, etc.)
• Proper documentation, storage, and reporting of techniques / approaches / pertinent data

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Strong analytical, reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work across cross functional teams and manage priorities to accomplish multiple tasks
• Passion for sports required, fundamental understanding of/experience playing golf highly preferred
• Practical knowledge and experience in experiment design, data collection and measurement techniques (experimental rigor)
• Expertise in statistical analysis and physics (ability to understand test results and drive decision/next steps)
• Curiosity and desire to solve challenging and unique problems with efficiency and attention to detail
• Experience with MATLAB

Benefits

• Expected hourly rate for this position is $20 per hour