Principal Data Scientist
About the AppHarvest Technology Group
The AppHarvest Technology Group is redefining agriculture by developing a new class of advanced farming facilities that will be deployed at scale. By combining the latest innovations in agriculture with our proprietary technology, we will make sustainably grown, chemical free food the global standard.
Our flagship facility is located in Morehead KY. This 60-acre indoor growing environment produces 30x more produce per-acre, uses 90% less water and its location near major urban centers has allowed us to reduce diesel use in transportation by 80%. But this is just the beginning and as a member of the Appharvest Technology Group you will be at the forefront of driving the innovations that will transform the worlds food supply.
AppHarvest is proud to verify our commitment to people and the planet by being a Certified B Corporation. As one of only four public B Corps in the United States, we are focused on balancing people and profit. Our goal is to promote a future of sustainable change in the agriculture industry while reducing our impact on the planet. And we're doing it all while creating jobs and helping Appalachia build a more resilient economy!
This is Farming Now.
About the Role:
As a Principal Data Scientist at AppHarvest Technology Group, you will join a team at the forefront of AgTech, AI, and Robotics that is on a mission to develop the innovative products that will redefine sustainable farming. You will setup the Data Science practice within the technology group. You’ll join a multi-disciplinary development team at the forefront of reinventing sustainable agriculture. In your first 90 days, you can expect to catalog and organize existing data sets, standardize on a toolset for data reporting and visualization and begin analyzing historical data.
What You’ll Do:
- Serve as the expert on data analysis, trend detection, and summarizing large data sets
- Establish best practices and setup the data analysis pipeline
- Analyzing existing data to generate labor productivity and machine up-time metrics
- Identify the leading indicators related to product yield and quality based on from environmental, crop care, and labor data
- Assist the advanced R&D team as needed to annotate, label, groom and deliver clean test & training datasets
- Clearly communicate results in concise reports and presentations
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. AppHarvest reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice.
What We’re Looking For:
- MS or greater in relevant field (CS, Statistics, Engineering, Finance)
- Design of experiments / data mining, statistical analysis and presentation
- 7+ years of industry experience in predictive modeling, data science, and analysis
- Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, Java, C++ with documentation for reproducibility
- Experience handling terabyte size datasets via Spark, Hadoop, EMR, etc.
- The ability to dive into data and discover hidden patterns, using data visualization tools, writing SQL, etc.
- Experience building a team and mentoring junior data scientists is a strong plus
Benefits:
- 100% company paid insurance premiums (Medical, Dental and Vision Plans)
- 401K Company Match 100% of First 3%- 50% of next 2% and is vested immediately – it is automatically yours
- 10 company paid holidays
- Generous PTO Packages starting at 15 PTO days
- 2 Paid Mission Days for volunteer work
- Company provided uniforms and shoes (for Greenhouse Employees)