What are the responsibilities and job description for the Breeding Data Scientist position at Corteva, Inc.?
time left to apply End Date : January 18, 2025 (28 days left to apply)
job requisition id 238212W
Are you better at statistics than most programmers and better at programming than most statisticians? Do you feel equally excited about working at a corn field and working at a command line? Do you aspire to translate new ideas into realized improvements in breeding strategy? If you answered yes to these questions, read on – you might be a good fit for our Data Scientist position.
We need Breeding Data Scientists to collaborate with visionary plant breeders, biostatisticians, genomicists, and crop scientists to build digitally enabled science and business capabilities. Join us and use your data science skillset to contribute to our team and help us on our mission!
Corteva Agriscience has a rich history of scientific discovery that has enabled countless innovations. We’re looking for more people, in more places, to collaborate with us to create a market-shaping agriculture company with leading positions in seed technologies, crop protection and digital agriculture.
What You'll Do :
- Join a small but well-connected science team that is leading the effort to drive innovative predictive breeding, continuous improvement of data collection and analysis, and pilot algorithmically enhanced decision making across Corteva’s breeding organization.
- Engage directly with a team of plant breeders, domain scientists, data scientists, and software developers assembled to identify business problems, discover new data opportunities, provide data driven solutions, and translate critical research questions into algorithmic frameworks and solutions.
- Manage deployment of new approaches to breeding decisions directly to breeding teams.
- Identify, acquire, and engineer feature data sets with potential to address customer needs.
- Apply machine learning, statistical or mechanistic models and other computational approaches to extract insights from datasets in complex agronomic systems.
- Collaborate with scientists from multiple domains in solution / experiment design and analyses.
- Conduct and communicate results of research on data science approaches to improve decisions, add value to services, extend or improve in-house models and algorithms, and contribute to the advancement of these ideas into the marketplace.
- Uphold Corteva Agriscience Core Values at all times.
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Benefits – How We’ll Support You :
Please read the following job description thoroughly to ensure you are the right fit for this role before applying.
Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills.
Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place.
Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment.
Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays.
Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father.
Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program.
Learn more about our total rewards package here – Corteva Benefits.
Check out life at Corteva! www.linkedin.com / company / corteva / life
Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.
Corteva
As the world’s only major agriscience company completely dedicated to agriculture, we’re building a culture that stays curious, thinks differently, acts boldly and takes a stand on what’s right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our planet. We know we’ve got big challenges to solve – we hope you’ll be part of the solution.
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