Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist Location: Urbandale, IA Duration: Contract 1 + year Summary : As a Data Scientist you will join a team leveraging petabyte-scale datasets for advanced analytics and model building to enable intelligent, automated equipment and improved decisions by farmers. Key Responsibilities: • Communicate with impact your findings and methodologies to stakeholders with a variety of backgrounds. • Work with high resolution machine and agronomic data in the development and testing of predictive models. • Develop and deliver production-ready machine learning approaches to yield insights and recommendations from precision agriculture data. • Define, quantify, and analyze Key Performance Indicators that define successful customer outcomes. • Work closely with the Data Engineering teams to ensure data is stored efficiently and can support the required analytics Qualification : • Experience with Data Modeling techniques such as Normalization, data quality and coverage assessment, attribute analysis, performance management, etc. • Experience building machine learning models such as Regression, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, probabilistic inference, natural language modeling, etc. • Excellent communication skills. Able to effectively lead meetings, to document work for reproduction, to write persuasively, to communicate proof-of-concepts, and to effectively take notes. • What makes candidates stand-out are skills such as: • Experience with Geospatial data search and analysis, geo-indexing techniques, vector and raster data structures. • Experience with remote sensing, GIS tools, and satellite imagery analysis. • Experience with CVML • Experience with Visualization tools such as Tableau, Kepler.gl, etc.