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More than 7 billion people depend on farms for healthy and affordable food. By 2050, the global population will reach 9.4 billion and farmers will need new ways to deliver on this demand.  They’ll be seeking options that are economically viable and that will help them remain environmentally sustainable. Granular’s software meets this need, making farmers more efficient. We’re looking for a Professional Service Data Specialist to make sure our customers are the most effective management technology users in the agriculture industry. You will be a responsible, self-starting individual who completes data projects on behalf of our paid professional services clients. This role is integral to Granular’s success and is a unique opportunity to join a mission focused, fast-paced, smart and fun team. What You’ll Get To Do: Master Granular Business product functionality and optimal customer data acquisition and entry methods Collect client data from various sources (spreadsheets, third party software, and office records) and organize according to the project requirements Enter and/or reconcile data into Granular Business on behalf of clients Communicate with the client and account manager throughout the project to clarify questions and share results Projects include assisting with account set up, monitoring and reconciling machine data, entering inventory delivery tickets, and entering historical records. For ongoing projects, meet data reconciliation and reporting deadlines Recommend additional services to clients based on successful interactions or if further pain points are identified during the project life cycle Help inform Account Executives and Customer Success Managers about available services project benefits, processes, and client impact Complete internal data projects and analyses to help enable our account managers Set up a project, communicate business and technical requirements, and execute project deadlines efficiently and accurately. Our Ideal Candidate: Direct experience and/or a strong professional understanding of the agricultural industry. This is a must, because to solve problems efficiently you need to know what business challenges our customers are addressing as well as how to relate to the industry culture. Strong background in project management or data processing High attention to detail and are good at organizing information Can comfortably use Excel Self-starter that can work independently and contribute to team developments Comfortable learning new processes every day – as a new but growing team we’re constantly evolving our work Excellent communicator, both verbal and written, esp over the phone and email You exude optimism, teamwork, and simplicity Work smart and efficiently while juggling multiple tasks and channels BA or BS from a leading university with a track record of academic excellence. Perks and Benefits: Upward mobility.  We are growing quickly and need talent who can take on increasingly challenging and rewarding roles Generous Vacation 401k Matching Program Commuter Benefit Program and Stipend Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, and Vision Vision and Dental FSA and Dependent Care FSA Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave Paid Adoption Leave and Adoption Assistance Dependent care for business travel Learning and Development Programs Open floor plan, dog-friendly offices Who We Are: Granular combines the leadership and innovation of experienced entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors with the meaningful insights of farmers, agronomists, data scientists and engineers. Our internal team has the rebellious, innovative business and technical acumen that defines Silicon Valley; this expertise has produced products including Granular Business, Granular Agronomy, AcreValue, and AgStudio. Founded in February 2014, and backed by leading VC’s like Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, Granular is an independent subsidiary of Corteva, a spin off of DowDuPont™. This position is specifically for the Research Park location in Champaign, IL. To apply, please visit: https://boards.greenhouse.io/granular/jobs/1502736

At Verizon Media’s Champaign, IL office we are currently looking for talented and motivated Engineers to join us. A Little About Us Verizon Media’s Advertising & Data Systems team is responsible for providing fast, clean, and relevant data for Verizon Media’s advertising businesses.  We are developing innovative techniques to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. Your Day Contributing to technical projects working in a team environment. Working projects to Increase performance of our systems, automating processes, forecasting loading, implementing tools for large data set issue analysis and verification. Production support: troubleshoot, report, and prioritize operational issues with multiple Big Data production pipelines Performance Engineering: Investigating and comparing Big Data infrastructural changes for improved performance and data throughput Work closely with Feature development teams to create highly reliable data applications Automation Engineering: Improve monitoring system’s scalability and standardization through automation, statistics and machine learning Work to ensure data security and data protection are maintained Act as a liaison between the different tiered support teams for operability/site-up issue escalation and monitoring We are looking for a candidate with these skills: A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from your achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit. Proficient in object oriented programming languages like Java, Python Familiar with Linux and shell scripting Familiar with  large-scale software deployments, familiarity with Chef a plus. Knowledge of SQL and relational databases Solid written and verbal communication skills Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills Excellent team working capability Knowledge of security and data protection concepts. Familiar with Hadoop, Storm Familiar with monitoring applications like Nagios/Netcool/Moog The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world If you are interested in joining the Verizon Media’s Champaign, IL office, please email a resume and cover letter to resume-champaign-data@verizonmedia.com.

Intelinair exists to help growers and agronomists improve crop performance by delivering actionable and detailed crop intelligence. The Intelinair team focuses on using the best available technologies to address some of the world’s most pressing and complex challenges. These real-world applications of AI technology help us work towards one of Intelinair’s purposes – to use intelligence to make the world a better place. As a Deep Learning/Computer Vision Engineer, you will work in close collaboration with Intelinair product teams to deploy machine learning algorithms to improve Intelinair products and services. Our Research Scientists bridge the gap between fundamental research and applications by integrating research into applied projects and working on research inspired by applications. To this end, we are looking to hire top quality Research Scientists interested in contributing to applied research. The role of Deep Learning/Computer Vision Engineer is a 30/70 research vs. engineering role. The work you will do will significantly move the needle with the core product and has high strategic importance to Intelinair. Responsibilities Develop state-of-the-art computer vision and deep learning algorithms to operate on large data sets of aerial images of farms, with the objective to provide situational assessment and predictive capabilities. Implement new algorithms with the objective to show clear improvement over existing algorithms. Share knowledge by clearly articulating ideas through reports/presentations to technical staff and management. Role Perform research to make machine learning more applicable to real-world problems. Provide research input on Intelinair products: determine the scope of the problem, the best place to apply machine learning, and evaluate different approaches. Bridge the gap between the research and products by integrating new fundamental research into applied projects and identifying interesting real-world problems to research. Collaborate with Software Engineers to design and run experiments, including designing and evaluating new algorithms as well as implementing known algorithms. Report and present experimental results and research findings clearly and efficiently, both internally and externally. Be an active member of the Intelinair team by validating and contributing to advances in ML. Skills and Experience Experience of interdisciplinary work between computer vision and crop sciences. Excellent skills in computer vision and deep learning methods for computer vision. Experience using AWS. Solid software engineering skills for prototyping. Minimum Qualifications Master/Ph.D. in the field of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related field. Publication track record in machine learning conferences and/or journals. Must be professional-level in Python and C++/C. Experience implementing numerical methods and data visualization. Good knowledge of algorithm design. Preferred Qualifications Experience in applying ML to real-world problems. Strong expertise in reinforcement learning and/or deep learning. Competent in one or more of the Google-supported languages (C++, Java, Python) with a desire to learn more. Perks: Competitive total compensation package Paid holidays and flexible paid time off Making a big impact in the agriculture industry while being part of an energetic and fun team Interested or know someone who would be a good fit?  Send a resume and cover letter to josh@intelinair.com 

A Little About Us  Verizon Media Group is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly performant, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you. Verizon Media Group’s Data Measurements and Insights team works on one of the biggest online advertising and audience data sets in the world. We are responsible for providing fast, clean, and relevant data for VMG’s advertising businesses as well as key measurements and insights about the users of VMG.  We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable data platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. A Lot About You  We’re looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to build on top of our world-class advertising data systems to drive new insights around campaign effectiveness, sales forecasting, and advertising platform robustness. As a VMG Data Scientist you will leverage the latest machine learning and data science techniques to produce validated solutions for us in our advertising platforms to help drive revenue and sales. Your Day  You will spend your days doing things like: Working with business leaders and engineers to discuss potential new features and customer issues to investigate Exploring large data sets for relationships, insights, and anomalies Building machine learning models to explain the past or predict the future Incubating data science and machine learning tools for use in the organization Playing with your friends in some of our local games and contests, from trivia to table tennis, puzzle building, escape rooms and more Helping your team figure out priorities and processes and what’s next You Must Have An advanced degree in Computer Science, Control Theory, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field The ability to excel in abstract and statistical thinking while deeply grounded in solid business judgment Interpersonal communication and relationship skills including the ability to explain complex analytical concepts to non-experts Data Science experience in solving classification and clustering problems on the web, performing information retrieval from unstructured and semi-structured data set, and building supervised and semi-supervised learning solutions A solid core computer science foundation in data structures and algorithms and object-oriented programming Proficient programming skills in languages and frameworks such as Java, Python, and R Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop (Pig/Hive), Spark, or other related technologies If this describes you, then we have a career for you at our place. Please email your resume to resume-champaign-datascience@verizonmedia.com with the subject “Data Scientist Resume”. Come see what we’re doing at Verizon Media Group on the Silicon Prairie in Champaign, Illinois!

Department: Corporate Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Job Status: Full Time Grade/Level: Corporate – I Job Type: Regular/Exempt Amount of Travel Required: <10% SUMMARY Genective, a JV between two leading global seeds companies, Limagrain and KWS, is seeking a strategic, result-oriented and stakeholder savvy CFO to join the fast-growing team in the U.S. and to provide leadership, development and oversight for its finance function. The CFO is a direct report of the CEO and a member of Genective’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT). The CFO also serves as Secretary of the Genective Board of Directors to ensure appropriate corporate governance and compliance with applicable regulations and authorities. The primary working location is Champaign, IL, with flexibility for other locations within reasonable commuting distance. Domestic and international travel may be required from time to time. THE POSITION As a direct report to the CEO, the CFO plays a critical role in setting the vision and strategy for Genective, along with CEO and other ELT members. As the top leader of the finance function, the CFO is responsible for providing leadership, development and oversight for the finance team and all finance activities. Essential Responsibilities Actively participates in corporate strategic planning and provides finance perspectives into Genective’s vision, strategy and near-and-long-term goals Develops the functional strategy for finance to enable achievements of Genective’s corporate vision, strategy and goals Leads development and implementation of policies, processes, and tools to meet Genective’s finance needs, including but not limited to o Genective is funded for success Genective financials, both OPEX and CAPEX, are managed in full compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and other regulations Genective financials, both OPEX and CAPEX, are managed effectively and efficiently towards achieving near-and-long-term corporate goals Effectively manages budgeting and forecasting to ensure financial alignment and guidance on people, facility, equipment and other capital and operating expenses Effectively manages closing, and initiates corrective actions if needed, to provide accurate and timely picture of financial performance and minimize impact of variances Provides regular and periodic analysis and reports, for example business plans, to enable strategic and operational decisions, as well as to monitor on-going financial performance Establishes a project-based financial management system to allocate, monitor and manage cost for research and development projects Actively participates in 3rd-party collaboration projects and activities and provides “the voice of finance” in deal evaluation, negotiation and on-going execution Performs Secretary duties for the Board of Directors as required by corporate governance regulations and policies, the Board of Directors and the CEO Liaises with and maintains a strong relationship with finance functions at parent companies and AgReliant, another JV of Limagrain and KWS, to fulfill all reporting and transactional requirements Additional Responsibilities As requested by the CEO and the Board of Directors QUALIFICATIONS The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications: Proven track record to provide direction and successfully manage all financial aspects of technology-driven companies or start-ups Experience and success in supporting business development activities with collaboration partners from scouting, evaluation, negotiation through on-going execution A strategic thinker, capable of effectively contributing to establish/communicate clear vision and strategy with measurable goals, balanced with attention to critical details and capability to drive execution and deliver results in an entrepreneurial environment Strong analytical skills and business acumen, capable to challenge diverse concepts and ideas, science and non-science, constructively towards achieving common goals Open minded and capable of integrating business aspects, scientific aspects, non-scientific aspects (R&D related legal, IP, regulatory, quality management) and infrastructure / operational aspects into decision processes High degree of influencing leadership skills in an international setting among diverse cultures Excellent communication skills and able to adjust communication style to highly different audiences Excellent project management skills and able to manage working teams effectively without direct authorities Experience in biotechnology, breeding, and other plant science companies a plus Experience in a joint venture operating environment a plus THE REWARD Competitive base salary, bonus, 401(K), medical, dental, long-term disability, and life insurance plans, as well as support programs for company car, fitness, education, and employee referral. Plus fun and satisfaction working in a high trust, high empowerment, high impact, entrepreneurial environment with a close-knit team. THE ORGANIZATION About Genective Genective is a 50/50 joint venture established between Limagrain and KWS, two of the world’s largest seed companies. With entities and activities in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, Genective is currently dedicated to the research, development, and marketing of transgenic traits for corn. About Limagrain As the fourth largest seed company worldwide, Limagrain’s mission is to move agriculture forward to meet global food related challenges. Limagrain is a cooperative group founded and managed by French farmers. Its parent company, Coopérative Limagrain, brings together nearly 2,000 farmers located in the center of France. The Group creates, produces and distributes field seeds, vegetable seeds and cereal products. Limagrain is present in 56 countries and has more than 10,000 employees. It makes nearly 2.5 billion Euros of sales with recognized brands on their markets: LG, Vilmorin, Hazera, Harris Moran, Jacquet, Brossard. About KWS KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. In the fiscal year 2017/18 more than 5,000 employees in 70 countries generated net sales of EUR 1,068 million and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of EUR 133 million. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for more than 160 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, rapeseed, sunflowers and vegetables. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to increase farmers’ yields and to improve resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested approximately EUR 200 million last fiscal year in research and development. HOW TO APPLY If interested, please send your cover letter and resume to Kim Lange kim.lange@genective.com.