Senior Agronomist

6 days ago


Singapore Archisen Full time

As a member of the Sciences team, your will help our client farms to monitor farm performance and troubleshoot issues, ensuring a sustained, optimal farm performance. You will work together with farm managers, engineers, scientists, and other stakeholders to mitigate issues and improve farm performance. You will contribute to the consistent crop production in our client farms and food security in the community.
- What we Expect from you?
- Design framework to monitor farm performance based on client requirements. Outline SOPs when production outcomes are not achieved
- Collect and analyse data from various sources e.g. production data, growing conditions, pest management, supply chain, workflow etc. to identify potential causes for production issues and propose solutions while considering practical limitations
- Design and conduct field trials to validate the efficacy of proposed solutions
- Communicate with stakeholders to manage timelines and expectations
- Requirements
- At least 2 years of work experience involving significant amount of framework development, troubleshooting and/or stakeholder management
- Diploma/Degree/Masters in agriculture-related field or any discipline in sciences, engineering, operations etc. Prior experience in agronomy is not required but must be motivated to learn on the job. Mid-career switchers with relevant transferable skills are welcome to apply
- Strong critical thinking skills to troubleshoot issues, propose and trial solutions
- Competent in data management, data analysis and statistics
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Bonus Requirements
- Work experience in high growth environments e.g. startup
- Research experience
- Business acumen

**Senior Crop Scientist (Microbiology)**:
As a member of the Sciences team, you will develop new research capabilities in life/biological science, and conduct R&D in crop science to improve yield productivity, increase crop quality, and validate new technology. You will work together with business development, farm operations, and engineering teams to further the field of high-technology farming. Your research findings will be applied to our partner farms, contributing to productivity gain and quality improvement.
- What we Expect from you?- Develop in-house research capabilities in life/biological science (with immediate focus on microbiology), e.g. setting up of new laboratory infrastructure, microorganisms culturing, development of microbial techniques and methodology
- Explore new ideas through literature review and learning from other knowledge sources to improve crop yield productivity and increase crop quality
- Design and conduct experiments, collect and analyse data to determine the effects of genetics and environment on crop yield and quality
- Conduct technical due diligence and validate emerging technology
- Mentor and guide crop scientists in their R&D work
- Requirements- PhD in life/biological science with research experience in microbiology
- Strong critical thinking skills to develop hypotheses and solutions in an ambiguous and dynamic environment
- Able to assess new information and solve problems using scientific methods
- Able to learn new knowledge quickly, i.e. be both specialist and generalist
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Bonus Requirements- Knowledge in plant genetics, plant physiology and/or plant pathology
- Work experience in high growth environments e.g. startup
- Business acumen

**Software Engineer**:

- What we Expect from you?- Designing page wireframes/layouts and custom graphics, formatting content, quality assurance testing, translating wireframes to web-apps to be used by our own staff
- Improving current IoT infrastructure for our indoor farm
- Working with external collaborators to integrate modules into our web-apps
- Developing APIs for IoT components to interact with
- Requirements- Diploma in relevant computing programmes
- Must be able to work in a team environment
- Must demonstrate good communications skills
- Demonstrated skills in software design & development
- Comfortable with Unix command line (eg Linux)
- Some experience in NodeJS, MySQL, MongoDB, HTML
- Working knowledge of JQuery, Bootstrap
- Bonus Requirements- Working knowledge in Angular or React
- Knowledge of Python, NoSQL, Git and Amazon Web Services S3, EC2
- Basic Photoshop/ GIMP photo manipulation skills
- Basic knowledge of Machine/Deep Learning (Tensorflow, Keras, etc)
- Basic knowledge of Embedded Systems Programming
- Basic knowledge of Networking (Port Forwarding, Static IPs, etc)
- Basic understanding of Version Control, Git is preferred

**Supply Chain Manager (Agriculture)**:
In conjunction with Archisen’s expansion plan, we are setting up a new business unit to sell high quality agriculture supplies. The manager will be working closely with the operations, business development, and technical teams to develop the new business unit.
- What we Expect from you?- Develop the company’s



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