Description Grow what's next. Grow your future. Are you excited to contribute to innovative research to enhance food security and drive sustainability? Join us at Corteva Agriscience for an exciting and impactful 6 month internship designed to give broad based exposure on the day-to-day activities of a team that works at the intersection of world class statistics, computer science and seed product design to explore compute in the service of science. Corteva Agriscience is a global leader of seed, crop protection, and digital solutions in agriculture.
This position will reside within the Seed Product Development Biostatistics & Scientific Computing team. This team discovers, adapts, and develops state of the art statistical methodology and computational algorithms that help convert real-time, high-volume data streams into actionable insights to inform optimized Seed Product Design.
Responsibilities - What You'll Do: - Work as part of a team to help develop, deploy and validate state-of-the-art analytics in service of an extensive plant evaluation and production pipeline.
- Collaborate with Biostatistics and Scientific Computing experts to validate and integrate high throughput analytics into Corteva's decision software systems.
- Manage your own research project with the expectation of a verbal report to the larger intern group found throughout the United States.
- Gain excellent experience that can be applied to full time positions in industry, or in preparation for additional graduate level training in computer science/engineering.
Qualifications Qualifications - What You'll Bring: - Priority will be given to students that are in the later stages of their undergraduate studies at an accredited university; must be enrolled at an accredited university at the time of internship.
- Must be able to relocate to the Corteva Seed Hub global headquarters in Johnston Iowa for the duration of the internship.
- Confidence and capability in a scientific programming language (Python, R, Julia) or a systems programming language (C++, C#, go, rust).
- Experience with basic software development principles, including version control, unit testing, performance benchmarking and code review.
- A solid foundation and interest in computer science and technology. Interest and experience in the biological sciences a plus.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with individuals of diverse language, cultural, and scientific backgrounds.
- Creative thinking and ability to work independently and in a team environment.
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Corteva Agriscience™ is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to boldly embracing the power of inclusion, diversity, and equity to enrich the lives of our employees and strengthen the performance of our company, while advancing equity in agriculture. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws. Discrimination, harassment and retaliation are inconsistent with our values and will not be tolerated. Corteva provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contactTalentAcquisition@corteva.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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