As a member of the Beck’s Family of employees, all full-time employees are eligible for a generous benefits package:
- Health benefits including two medical plan options and company HSA contributions, dental, vision, employer paid life/AD&D for you and your dependents, disability insurance, and access to an onsite Nurse Practitioner
- 401k plan match & company sponsored pension plan and access to a Financial Advisor to help you manage your retirement savings
- Paid time off, Paid Holidays, Wellness Programs, & Corporate Discounts
- Company Christmas Party, Free Lunch, Two Hundred Dollar Merchandise Allowance, & Much More
Responsibilities
- Interact cooperatively with corn breeding, biotechnology laboratory and phenomics staff to facilitate an efficient and effective modern breeding program.
- Support breeding programs with predictive models for yield, drought tolerance, or disease resistance.
- Build, optimize and maintain scalable ML pipelines for preprocessing, training, deployment, and monitoring.
- Work with cross-functional teams to understand business challenges and translate them into machine learning solutions.
- Collect, preprocess, and analyze large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
- Monitor model performance, retrain as needed, and ensure fairness, robustness, and interpretability.
- Implement machine learning and other modern statistical techniques in conjunction with rest of computational genomics team.
- Stay up to date with the latest ML/AI research, tools, and frameworks, and recommend innovative approaches.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical shareholders.
- Anticipate and propose technological updates and capital needs well in advance.
- Perform other related duties as may be required by Beck’s management.
Job Requirements
Education and training:
- BS required, MS or PhD preferred in statistics, data analytics, computer science, mathematics, plant breeding, genetics, animal science (or related discipline)
- Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and insurable driving record as determined by Beck’s automobile insurance policy.
Skills:
- Thorough understanding of analytical tools such as Python, R, SQL, or similar.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Practical experience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, decision trees, or language models.
- Practical experience developing and deploying production level code with full documentation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Possess a positive attitude.
- Ability to establish priorities, work independently or on a team, and proceed with objectives without supervision.
Experience:
- Three (3) years of experience in a machine learning or data analytic role preferred
** In an effort to provide a safer, drug-free workplace for employees, all full-time applicants to whom offers of employment are made must submit to a drug test and background check, subject to applicable local, state, or federal laws or regulations. Employment at Beck's is contingent upon passing these pre-employment screenings.
