The posting
Company Description
About Syngenta
At Syngenta Vegetable Seeds, we’re passionate about helping people in the vegetable industry succeed and putting growers at the heart of all that we do. Our energies are focused on creating solutions that help them get more out of their crops, now and in the future. A commitment in every seed. We do this by protecting seed, bulbs, or small plant quality from the start to enable growers to achieve the highest yield potentials in their operations; continually investing in R&D to bring cutting-edge innovations to the market; and striving to make a real-world difference through more sustainable practices on farms, in shipping, and at the grocery store.
Job Description
At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta’s Analytics & Data Sciences Team is seeking an R&D Analytics - AI Developer in Durham, NC.
This role will build software solutions that enable R&D teams to analyze experimental, phenotypic, genotypic, environmental, operational, and pipeline data at scale. The successful candidate will combine strong software engineering, applied AI, and scientific data understanding to deliver tools that improve decision-making across Vegetable R&D.
The role requires fluency in modern AI-assisted development tools, including internal AI platforms, while also being able to design solutions that go beyond generic AI by embedding R&D-specific models, datasets, workflows, and domain logic.
We are looking for someone who does not simply use AI tools, but knows how to build beyond them. The ideal candidate will use AI platforms and modern AI development assistants to accelerate delivery, while also creating differentiated R&D solutions that depend on Syngenta’s scientific data, models, experimental context, and domain expertise.
Accountabilities:
- Design and build data pipelines to support the development and deployment of machine learning models and advanced analytics.
- Build analytical software and AI solutions that integrate R&D-specific data, models, and decision frameworks into intuitive user workflows.
- Build application containerization and orchestration within a cloud environment.
- Managing software deployment and configuration in non-production and production environments.
- Partner with R&D scientists, data scientists, and analytics teams to translate scientific and operational needs into scalable software solutions.
- Use AI-assisted software development tools to improve productivity, code quality, documentation, testing, while maintaining strong engineering judgment and accountability for final outputs.
- Evaluate emerging AI, agentic AI, and automation capabilities and identify where they can responsibly improve R&D analytics, experimentation, and decision support.
- Ensure solutions are scientifically valid, explainable where needed, reliable in production, and aligned with data governance, model governance, security, and compliance expectations.
Qualifications
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must reside in and be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. This comprises, but is not limited to, OPT, CPT, and H-1B visa holders.
- Master or PhD in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Quantitative Genetics, or a related field
- A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years building and maintaining production systems in Python.
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning frameworks.
- Strong knowledge and experience of Agentic AI and large language models.
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end software solutions.
- Strong Python programming and software engineering skills.
- Experience with big data platforms and technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
- Experience packaging, deploying, and monitoring ML models in production.
- Proficiency in developing cloud-native applications and deploying to cloud environments, especially AWS.
- Experience with API technologies (e.g. RESTful APIs or GraphQL)
- Experience developing software products or analytical applications for scientific, R&D, agricultural, biological, or similarly complex data domains.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI coding assistants, enterprise AI platforms, or agentic AI tools to accelerate software delivery while applying independent technical review, testing, and validation.
- Familiarity with responsible AI practices, including model evaluation, bias/error assessment, traceability, prompt/version management, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Additional Information
This role can be based in multiple Syngenta locations across Europe and the Americas.
Salary for this position ranges between $104,800 - $157,200 annually.
What We Offer:
- A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
- Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
- 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
- Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.
Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI
Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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