Are you driven by innovations in agriculture? Do you want to take digital phenotyping to the next level?
Plan your next career move with us and start as a Scientist (m/f/d) for Digital Phenotyping at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA. This is a permanent, full-time position starting on May 1, 2025, located at our headquarters in Einbeck, Southern Lower Saxony.
As a Scientist, you will shape the future of plant breeding by applying and developing digital phenotyping technology for our maize and oilseed crops.
Your Responsibilities - Challenge Meets Responsibility:
- Coordinate international digital routine phenotyping application in field trials for maize and oilseed crops.
- Develop new digital phenotyping methods in collaboration with breeders and technology experts.
- Implement new technologies for breeding applications.
- Collaborate with an international team of breeding stations, breeders, and researchers.
Your Profile - Competence Meets Personality:
- Master's or Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, Plant Breeding, Agricultural Engineering, Geodesy, or related fields.
- Ideally, you have some experience or interest in sensor technologies for phenotypic trait capture of plants and environmental characterization.
- Experience in planning, conducting, and analyzing field trials is advantageous.
- Excellent computer skills (MS Office) are essential; proven experience in statistical software (e.g., R), GIS, databases (e.g., SQL), and scientific software (e.g., Python) is a plus.
- Excellent teamwork, organizational, initiative, and communication skills.
- Fluent English is required for this role; German skills are a plus.
- Willingness to travel worldwide (up to 25%).
To help you grow with us... What can we offer you?
- As a family-run company, we live by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight, and independence - a culture that is also practiced in reality, for example, through an open and friendly working atmosphere.
- True to the motto: "Make yourself grow!" we promote individual professional and personal development.
- As a foundation, we offer excellent work equipment (ergonomic workstations, multiple screens, air conditioning, the latest laboratory equipment), a fully subsidized canteen, and ample free parking at the location.
- We create the appropriate framework conditions for you: capital-forming benefits, Christmas and vacation bonuses.
Be part of the future at KWS! We welcome online applications through our tool SuccessFactors.
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