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 novel virtual phenotyping techniques. 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 into actionable insights real-time, high-volume data streams, to inform optimized Seed Product Design.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do:

• Work as part of a team to help develop, deploy, and characterize state-of-the-art Biological Model - Whole Genome Prediction (BioWGP) methodologies.

• Collaborate with Biostatistics and Scientific Computing experts to validate and integrate high throughput BioWGP analytical software systems into Corteva's analytics and 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 the industry, or in preparation for additional graduate level training in the plant sciences.

Qualifications

Qualifications - What You'll Bring:

• Priority will be given to students that are in later stages of their graduate studies at an accredited university.

• Solid foundation in mathematical modelling and statistical analysis method. Knowledge of and experience with Bayesian Hierarchical models is a plus.

• A solid foundation, passion, and interest in scientific programming of mathematical models describing biological and developmental mechanisms and processes.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with individuals of diverse language, cultural, and scientific backgrounds.

• Ability and confidence to manage and manipulate large data sets using languages like R or Python. Willingness to test and help validate internal analysis software.

• 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.

• Creative thinking and ability to work independently and in a team environment.

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, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. Discrimination, harassment and retaliation are inconsistent with our values and will not be tolerated. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit:

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