Associate Scientist Data Scientist jobs in Hyderabad at ICRISAT

ICRISAT seeks applications for the post of Associate Scientist – Data Scientist to be based within the Systems Analysis for Climate Smart Agriculture (SACSA) team and to be based at ICRISAT Headquarters in India.

Essentials:

PhD in soil science, agronomy, data science, modelling, agricultural science or related field with 2 – 4 years of experience.

Experience in use of simulation modelling tools for systems analysis

Experience in collecting and statistically analyzing diverse data for systems research

Detailed understanding of the interactions between soils, crops, climate, agricultural management and environment

Demonstrated capacity to turn innovations into well-developed written and spoken English scientific output such as research articles and project reports

Demonstrated implementation of programming skills such as R or Python

Understanding of the impact of management soil processes, notably organic carbon turnover

Desirable

Understanding of the function of components of cropping systems/soil systems models such as APSIM, DSSAT, Century/Daycent, DNDC

Demonstrated implementation of programming skills in C++ or VisualBasic.NET

Good understanding of statistical analyses of crop modeling outputs and experience with statistical software packages would be an advantage

Knowledge of challenges faced by farmers and rural communities of the semi-arid/sub-humid tropics

Insight into the soil carbon cycle

General:This is a Locally Recruited Staff position for two years’ renewable based on the performance of the incumbent and the institute’s continuing need for the position.

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world.