Remote Sensing Data Scientist

At Syngenta we are building the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture to provide leading seeds innovations that enhance the prosperity of farmers worldwide. Our Digital Germplasm Development Team is seeking a motivated Remote Sensing Data Scientist who will be instrumental in revolutionizing how we leverage geospatial intelligence to accelerate breeding programs and bring superior seeds to market faster.

In this role you will support the development and deployment of computer vision solutions that extract digital traits from multi-modal plant imagery to accelerate breeding decisions and enable self-supervised learning products. Drive the strategic vision for scalable phenomics platforms that transform raw imagery from drones ground-based sensors and mobile devices into actionable breeding insights and AI-powered identification tools for internal and external users. As an individual contributor youll combine technical excellence with scientific rigor to transform raw imagery into actionable breeding intelligence.

This is an opportunity to apply cutting-edge remote sensing and AI technologies to solve real-world agricultural challenges on a global scale.

Accountabilities:

• Design and maintain scalable production-grade remote sensing data pipelines that ingest process and manage multi-source geospatial imagery supporting global breeding operations.
• Develop and operate automated image preprocessing and quality-control workflows to reliably transform raw imagery into analysis-ready data.
• Build and deploy machine learning and computer vision solutions that extract breeding-relevant insights from large-scale multi-temporal imagery datasets.
• Integrate multi-sensor data sources (satellite drone ground-based and environmental data) into unified analytical frameworks enabling advanced spatial analysis.
• Deliver time-series and geo-temporal analyses that characterize crop growth phenology and genotype-by-environment interactions across global trial networks.
• Develop embedding-based approaches that learn rich representations from imagery for downstream prediction tasks (yield stress disease trait values).
• Leverage foundation models and transfer learning (vision transformers self-supervised learning geospatial foundation models) to create robust generalizable solutions across crops and environments.
• Partner closely with data engineering and IT teams to design and implement a unified enterprise geospatial data platform and enable efficient spatial querying at scale.
• Collaborate effectively with relevant subject matter experts and data science colleagues to ensure solutions are scientifically sound reusable and aligned with business priorities.

Qualifications :

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring current or future sponsorship (which also refers to OPT/CPT and H-1B visas).

• Masters or Doctoral degree in Remote Sensing Geosciences Agricultural Engineering Ecology or a related field.
• 3 years of hands-on experience with remote sensing imagery and geospatial data in research or production environments such as multi-sensor data (multispectral hyperspectral SAR thermal LiDAR).
• Advanced Python programming with geospatial libraries (GDAL Rasterio GeoPandas Xarray) ML/DL frameworks (PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn) and cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure).
• Proven ability to build and deploy production-grade geospatial data pipelines and scalable ML/computer vision models for segmentation classification and object detection on large imagery datasets.
• Experience with advanced ML techniques such as transfer learning foundation models self-supervised learning and embedding-based approaches particularly in limited-labeled-data scenarios.
• Software development fundamentals version control (Git) containerization (Docker) CI/CD workflows and geospatial data management best practices.
• Background applying remote sensing to agriculture environmental monitoring or natural resource management with experience translating scientific requirements into operational tools alongside domain experts.

Additional Information :

Salary for this position ranges between $104800 - $131000 annually. 

What We Offer: 

• A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs. 
• Full Benefit Package (Medical Dental & Vision) that starts your first day. 
• 401k plan with company match Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution. 
• Paid Vacation Paid Holidays Maternity and Paternity Leave Education Assistance Wellness Programs Corporate Discounts among other benefits. 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. Learn more about our team and our mission here:  is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. 

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time