Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist (Experienced)

What will you do?

You and your colleagues will be working on creating innovative data solutions for our agri (soft fruit sector) customers, which will support them in optimizing their yield forecasts.

Based on a continuous flow of live data collected with our IoT devices, customers data sources and external data sources.

You will have direct influence on our datascience vision, strategy, technology, data architecture and execution within YieldComputer. This includes research & development of existing and new vision-, prediction- and analysis- models.

Data-engineering is needed to keep data quality high and build new features for our models. Monitoring is crucial in optimizing our data-quality, so you will also develop dashboards to gain more and real-time, insights in our collected data and model predictions.‍

What we are looking for:  

• Experience and approved knowledge within the Azure stack / Databricks is a must
• Programming skills (Python, SQL, PySpark or other relevant analytical programming languages) are required
• Min. 5 years’ work-experience as data engineer, data scientist or data architect, and / or a relevant background in a scientific related study (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related study)
• Strong communicator, passionate about your work and our product. Able to bring your suggestions, improvements and discussion points across to both the team, other stakeholders and clients in clear visual data presentations.  
• Experience with Computer Vision frameworks is a plus (Pytorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
• Experience with TimeSeries forecasting is a plus
• Background or passionate about agriculture is a plus
• A result-oriented person that is motivated by continuous improvement and gaining knowledge.
• Willing and capable to bring our start-up and the (data-science) team to the next level with your skills
  

What we offer:

• A crucial and challenging position in a dynamic and innovative AgriTech start up.  
• Room for self-development and growth supported and coached by experienced colleagues.
• An ambitious and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team to work with. Dedicated to solve a real-world challenge in an innovative and impactful way.
• A competitive salary with room to grow
• Flexibility in working at home and office*  
• Young and creative environment with state-of-the-art technology
• Full-time or part-time contract (negotiable if other is required)

*) Our office is based in Eindhoven at Strijp-T. You are flexible to work 50% from home, but we have some mandatory working days together at the office.  

About YieldComputer

YieldComputer is an AgriTech start-up which is using (AI) technology and IoT, to help the soft fruit sector (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries) to drastically improve the accuracy of their harvests forecasts. With our product, this primary sector can become more resilient and sustainable, by having a better negotiation and/or partner position, through better information, towards the large purchasing retailers.

More accurate yield forecasts also lead to a more efficient and sustainable use of resources. Surpluses are identified timelier and as a result fresh soft fruit is less unnecessarily sold and processed industrially or disposed as waste. In addition, fruit, in which many resources have been put, is prevented from remaining unnecessarily in the field.

Application process:

• We would like to receive your application accompanied with your CV and introduction/motivation letter.  
• After an evaluation of your application and when we see a match, we will invite you for a first introduction meeting. Which will be held with 2 colleagues with at least one data science team member, so you can ask your questions about the position, and we will get to know you more.

• When we both are still excited, we will have, most of the time, a second interview. To meet other colleagues from our company, talk about how to fill in the position and expectations both ways.
• After this meeting you will receive an offer, which you can reply to.
• And you have joined the team. HURRAY!!!

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Please send in your application to:

Pieterjan Oomen (pjoomen@yieldcomputer.com)

NO AGENCIES PLEASE!

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