Machine Learning Specialist

As a member of the Beck’s Family of employees, all full-time employees are eligible for a generous benefits package:

• Health benefits including two medical plan options and company HSA contributions, dental, vision, employer paid life/AD&D for you and your dependents, disability insurance, and access to an onsite Nurse Practitioner
• 401k plan match & company sponsored pension plan and access to a Financial Advisor to help you manage your retirement savings
• Paid time off, Paid Holidays, Wellness Programs, & Corporate Discounts
• Company Christmas Party, Free Lunch, Two Hundred Dollar Merchandise Allowance, & Much More

• Interact cooperatively with corn breeding, biotechnology laboratory and phenomics staff to facilitate an efficient and effective modern breeding program.
• Support breeding programs with predictive models for yield, drought tolerance, or disease resistance.
• Build, optimize and maintain scalable ML pipelines for preprocessing, training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand business challenges and translate them into machine learning solutions.
• Collect, preprocess, and analyze large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
• Monitor model performance, retrain as needed, and ensure fairness, robustness, and interpretability.
• Implement machine learning and other modern statistical techniques in conjunction with rest of computational genomics team.
• Stay up to date with the latest ML/AI research, tools, and frameworks, and recommend innovative approaches.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical shareholders.
• Anticipate and propose technological updates and capital needs well in advance.
• Perform other related duties as may be required by Beck’s management.

• BS required, MS or PhD preferred in statistics, data analytics, computer science, mathematics, plant breeding, genetics, animal science (or related discipline)
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and insurable driving record as determined by Beck’s automobile insurance policy.

• Thorough understanding of analytical tools such as Python, R, SQL, or similar.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
• Practical experience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, decision trees, or language models.
• Practical experience developing and deploying production level code with full documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Possess a positive attitude.
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently or on a team, and proceed with objectives without supervision.

• Three (3) years of experience in a machine learning or data analytic role preferred

** In an effort to provide a safer, drug-free workplace for employees, all full-time applicants to whom offers of employment are made must submit to a drug test and background check, subject to applicable local, state, or federal laws or regulations.

Employment at Beck's is contingent upon passing these pre-employment screenings.