Data Scientist Job

DATA SCIENTIST- COMPUTATIONAL AGRONOMIST needed for a CONTRACT opportunity with Yoh's client located in CHESTERFIELD, MO.

THE BIG PICTURE - TOP SKILLS YOU SHOULD POSSESS:

- Strong analytical and statistical research skills
- Ability to break down data with or without a team
- Proficient with programming languages
- Capable of data mining and extraction

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

- Design, implement and optimize algorithms for unsupervised and supervised learning based on structured and unstructured data.
- Develop powerful business insights from social, marketing, industrial data and public policy using advanced machine learning techniques.
- Work closely with the software engineering team to productize analytic software.
- Collaborate with system integration and data warehouse engineers on data extraction and data cleaning.
- Work in a highly interactive, team-oriented environment.
- You will be in the Biotech field testing teams on how to optimize field agronomic practices with multitude of skills such as crop modelling, soil mapping and weather modelling.
- Involved in design of field experiments including collection of soil chemical and physical properties, and working collaboratively with other statisticians on providing agronomic recommendations.
- Collaboration with in-house statisticians and research scientists on many projects, but is also expected to work independently in methodology and analysis code development, as necessary.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- An M.S. or PhD degree in crop science, soil science, meteorology, crop physiology, or related fields with extensive crop modelling or weather modelling background
- Proficiency with programming language such as Matlab, Python or R.
- Experience with crop modelling, GxE analyses, and other environmental modelling
- Strong teamwork skills.
- Usually requires achievement of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Economics or Statistics and two to five (2-5) years of previous experience

BONUS POINTS:

- Experience with soil mapping, yield modelling, and plant breeding.
- Background and experience in computational statistics/data mining/model building

GET HIRED, APPLY NOW!

RECRUITER: Amy G

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

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