Software Engineer - Agronomic Modeling
Software Engineer - Agronomic Modeling
InnerPlant
Davis, CA
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About Us
InnerPlant is the place for curious people who want to create innovative traits that harness plant physiology and unlock data at scale to boost global agricultural yields and sustainability. We're backed by industry giant John Deere, farmer customers, and other veteran venture capitalists and are poised for growth as we develop crops that can tell us what they need by turning plants into living sensors.
If you're a dreamer and an optimist, someone who believes they can change the world and want to take action to leave a positive lasting impact - this is the opportunity for you.
Job Description
As our company has made great strides in our work to create plants that generate an optical signal when stressed, and detect that signal from various imaging platforms, we are now expanding our work to make that signal actionable for farmers. The successful candidate for this position will help design, build and maintain models that augment and complement our plants' signals.
Goals
Skills Summary
The US base salary range for this position is $135,000 - $185,000 + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
InnerPlant provides an amazing opportunity to work on some of the hardest problems facing humanity and help design the agricultural systems of the future. In addition to working with a fun team, we offer competitive compensation, insurance benefits, and flexible time-off.
InnerPlant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
InnerPlant is the place for curious people who want to create innovative traits that harness plant physiology and unlock data at scale to boost global agricultural yields and sustainability. We're backed by industry giant John Deere, farmer customers, and other veteran venture capitalists and are poised for growth as we develop crops that can tell us what they need by turning plants into living sensors.
If you're a dreamer and an optimist, someone who believes they can change the world and want to take action to leave a positive lasting impact - this is the opportunity for you.
Job Description
As our company has made great strides in our work to create plants that generate an optical signal when stressed, and detect that signal from various imaging platforms, we are now expanding our work to make that signal actionable for farmers. The successful candidate for this position will help design, build and maintain models that augment and complement our plants' signals.
Goals
- Manage deployment of mechanistic models concerning plant disease and insect pressure
- Create and assess performance of statistical models germane to plant disease and insect pressure.
- Work with other team members to create pipelines for data input and model output for both model types
Skills Summary
- Domain: Mechanistic modeling in an ecological or biophysical context, statistical modeling, machine learning, geostatistics
- Software: Python, experience with common development tools and services, such as version control software, package managers, and CI/CD pipelines as well as with the Python scientific stack
- Infrastructure: AWS
- Interpersonal: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to present modeling work and relay underlying technical concepts to non-engineers
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in STEM field, PhD preferred
- At least 3 years of experience building and deploying models, ideally in industry and/or in a customer-facing context
- Long term mindset and outlook toward building maintainable models
- Knowledge of agronomic first principles and disease modeling in major row crops (i.e., soybeans, corn, etc.) is a huge plus
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn about remote sensing, genetics, and the global food system
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
The US base salary range for this position is $135,000 - $185,000 + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
InnerPlant provides an amazing opportunity to work on some of the hardest problems facing humanity and help design the agricultural systems of the future. In addition to working with a fun team, we offer competitive compensation, insurance benefits, and flexible time-off.
InnerPlant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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