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EPITEC lists this Agronomist opportunity in johnston, Iowa. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Title : Crop Modeling Scientist
Location : Open to fully remote candidates
Details : Contract with ongoing need, opportunity for direct hire, fully onsite role
Pay Rate : $50.00 – 53.00/hr. with benefit inclusions
First shift - 8am-5pm CST business hours
Job Summary
We are seeking a Crop Modeling Scientist to develop, calibrate, and apply advanced agricultural simulation models that support data-driven decision-making across diverse crop production systems. This role will leverage agronomic expertise, crop modeling, data science, and AI-enabled analytics to evaluate interactions among genetics, environment, and management practices. The ideal candidate will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to transform complex agricultural data into scientifically sound recommendations and scalable decision-support solutions for growers.
Responsibilities
Develop and apply crop modeling approaches to evaluate genotype × environment × management (GxExM) interactions and predict outcomes of management decisions across diverse crop production systems.
Design and execute model calibration, validation, sensitivity, and uncertainty analyses across geographies, years, and management systems.
Define modeling requirements by evaluating interactions among genetics, weather, soils, crop management, and cropping history, including model assumptions, inputs, outputs, and validation criteria.
Analyze large agricultural, geospatial, and environmental datasets, including machine-generated field data, soil maps, topography, remote sensing products, multispectral imagery, and other environmental layers.
Develop scalable, repeatable workflows for data processing, simulation, visualization, and reporting.
Establish agronomic logic, constraints, and validation frameworks that ensure AI-generated recommendations are scientifically sound, transparent, and operationally effective.
Collaborate with agronomists, data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to translate model outputs into practical decision-support tools and grower recommendations.
Years Of Experience And Education
Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Agronomy, Crop Science, Soil Science, Agricultural Engineering, Biological Systems Engineering, Quantitative Genetics, or a related field.
Experience working with large multi-year, multi-environment agricultural datasets and translating scientific research into operational recommendations and decision-support tools.
Skills Required
Expertise in crop physiology, phenology, soil-water dynamics, nutrient cycling, and U.S. row crop production systems, preferably corn and soybean.
Advanced proficiency in Python and/or R, with experience using SQL, Databricks, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI-assisted development tools.
Experience developing reproducible analytics workflows and working with large agricultural, geospatial, remote sensing, drone, satellite, and environmental datasets.
Knowledge of precision agriculture technologies, machine-generated farm data, field boundaries, management zones, digital elevation models, and related agronomic data layers.
Strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate model assumptions, uncertainty, limitations, and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience developing agronomic validation frameworks for AI-generated recommendations and utilizing visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms.
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Worksite address
johnston, IA, 50131, US
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