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Senior Data Scientist

Bowery Farming
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 May 2024
💰 $185,000/yr

About the role

At Bowery, we’re making wildly delicious food more accessible to everyone. Driven by our proprietary end-to-end technology, our farms are transforming the entire fresh food supply chain to be simpler, safer, and vastly more sustainable.
We have 5 farms in operation (including state-of-the-art R&D and innovation farms) and we’re just getting started. We’re backed by tech and agriculture industry leaders with $647M in equity and debt capital, and our products are sold in over 1,400 locations.
Working at Bowery is more than just a job. It’s a chance to make a global impact with first-of-its-kind technology and ridiculously good food. We’re always looking for passionate minds to grow (and eat) with us! Ready to make a real difference? Join us. We’d love to have you here.  
P.s. Check out The Roots: Bowery Farming's People Podcast for all things Bowery culture, teams, leadership, and karaoke (yes, karaoke)
About The Role:The Data Science role at Bowery builds production-facing data products which help automate and optimize the agricultural and operational functions across our network of indoor vertical farms. The Data & AI function is central to the vision of the company as well as its day-to-day operation, and owns the analytics, forecasting, crop modeling, computer vision, and operations optimization solutions. In addition to our team of data scientists, you’ll also collaborate with software engineers, agricultural scientists, and supply-chain managers who bring domain expertise to our data-driven solutions.
This role is based out of our NYC HQ. We follow a hybrid working model.

What You'll Do:

  • Create innovative quantitative solutions to advance the state of indoor farming alongside supply chain managers, mechanical engineers, and agricultural operations specialists.
  • Research, design, and implement machine learning and operations research models. 
  • Develop SQL to transform the raw data produced by the farm into a comprehensive data warehouse as the authoritative source for all facts about the business.
  • Partner with other functional areas to develop metrics, understand analytical needs and interpret results about our crops and our business.
  • Build and use statistical and algorithmic models to proactively surface and predict relationships in data.
  • Analyze historical data related to crop growth and environmental characteristics to model and forecast yields for future harvests, and uncover insights about optimizing growth potential.
  • Design experimental frameworks to ensure data integrity and empower us to more easily analyze and act upon data from new trials.
  • Help shape the way our data science team does work - researching and making key decisions about what we build, how we build it, and which tools are best for solving our problems.
  • Contribute to Bowery’s data-driven culture, and influence best practices.

Who You Are:

  • You have extensive experience applying data science, operations research, machine learning, or related methods to solving real-world problems.
  • You have experience designing and deploying software that makes decisions, and monitoring/measuring the impact of those decisions.
  • You've worked with cross-functional stakeholders to implement or maintain software that serves business needs.
  • You are fluent in Python and enjoy building software the team can depend on.
  • You are proficient with SQL and can work “full stack” to integrate solutions with our data ecosystem, are familiar with dbt, and know how to deal with data too big to analyze in memory.
  • You are confident in taking ownership of projects from start to finish and enjoy the process of turning nebulous ideas into reality.
  • You are energized by the idea of translating business, operations, and agricultural questions into data science problems, solving those problems, and interpreting the output back into clear outcomes.
  • You’re a creative problem solver who is able to plan collaboratively but execute independently
  • You have experience supporting and coaching teammates through technical decision-making


Who We Are:

  • Bowery is a place where everyone is welcome, included, and empowered to reach their full potential.
  • We live our shared values every day in both big and small ways: opt in, think wildly different, break barriers together & be kind to the core
  • We are a mission-driven team of unconventional thinkers, problem-solvers, optimists, and activators
  • We share a passion for giving back more to the planet than we take, growing deliciously abundant food without abundant harm
  • We are excited to hear from you!

Benefits as Good as our Greens

  • To support you and your family, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance; menta

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