We’re Blue River, a team of innovators driven to radically change agriculture by creating intelligent machinery. We empower our customers - farmers - to implement more sustainable solutions: optimize chemical usage, reimagining routine processes, and improving farming yields year after year. We believe that focusing on the small stuff – pixel-by-pixel and plant-by-plant - leads to big gains. By partnering with John Deere, we are innovating computer vision, machine learning, robotics and product management to solve monumental challenges for our customers.

Our people are at the heart of what we do. Through cross-discipline collaboration, this mission-driven and daring team is eager to define the new frontier of agricultural robotics. We are always asking hard questions, rapidly iterating, and getting our boots in the field to figure it out. We are committed to making a tangible and positive impact on agriculture, construction & forestry

Position Summary: 

As a Tech Lead for the Data Science team you’ll have the opportunity to work with a number of teams answering a variety of analytics questions that help us design, build and understand our products. You will help teams answer their own questions by designing and directing the construction of data pipelines and interfaces. 

In this role you will foster an agile team of data scientists, work with product managers to prioritize incoming requests and design technical roadmaps, and you will be the Technical Lead for Data Science in the See & Spray organization. You will champion this team, celebrating wins and learning from setbacks. We believe in continuous improvement and are seeking a motivated person who wishes to grow their own skills while helping Deere deliver on its vision for helping farmers feed the world.

Position Responsibility:

• Be the Technical and Managerial Lead for a growing and collaborative team of Data Scientists aimed at supporting the various research and product functions of the See & Spray organization.

• Architect, design, and deliver production-ready analytic pipelines and machine learned solutions. Define requirements for Data Engineering teams.

• Work with large and disparate engineering data. Enable our agronomic, machine learning, robotics software and product teams to make better data driven decisions.

• Be a vocal, visible presence in collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other internal stakeholders of our team.

• Communicate clearly and often your team’s findings and methodologies to stakeholders at multiple levels.

• Provide technical guidance, mentorship and supervision for data scientists. Actively peer review science within the team. 

• Assist in the development of our technology by designing and conducting data driven experiments, proving out the utility of new technologies. 

Requirements:

• Management, mentoring, or tech leadership experience.

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or equivalent role, with experience building software and using data pipelines.

• Experience with geospatial, time series, or image datasets.

• Experience with some of: state estimation, Monte Carlo analyses, information entropy, computer vision machine learning applications. 

• Stellar Communication skills - building relationships, technical guides or documentation, results oriented presentations for internal and external platforms. 

• Comfortable presenting work to a variety of audiences - from small teams to senior leadership or at conferences.

Skills:

• Kubeflow, Terraform, Pytorch, Lambda, EMR, ECS, S3

• Python, C++, Typescript, R

Blue River offers competitive compensation and benefits, including a great 401(K) match. We believe in a work life balance and offer generous Paid Time Off and Sick Leave as well as Paid Parental Leave and an adoption benefit. Subsidized lunches, flexible work hours, CalTrain passes (with mobile Wi-Fi!) and a collaborative and supportive environment also contribute to making Blue River a great place to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We support each employee living a full life, enabling a thriving career and accomplishing a meaningful, challenging mission with incredible people.

We have designed our work environment to allow us each to do our work effectively, be our best selves, and be exposed to the unexpected connections and experiences that support creative innovation - all while leaving room for the other things you love.

The US base salary range for this position is $148,000 - $264,000, along with eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

During the recruitment process, we may identify an alternative role or level which you are more suited. If your ideal role at Blue River differs from the advertised position, we will provide an updated pay range as soon as possible during the hiring process.