Fall Creek is creating a world with better blueberries through its friendly, collaborative team spread across the globe. To help us accomplish this, we are seeking a qualified Data Science Engineer to support decision-making in plant breeding and horticultural research initiatives. In this role, you will work closely with R&D; biologists and agronomists to design best practices for collecting data and understanding their data needs; translating those needs in close collaboration with IT to build robust data products; and supporting other data scientists in statistical modeling, machine learning, and visualization endeavors. This position will be located in
Sevilla, Spain
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This role will work with diverse colleagues from around the world. While much of the work will be integral or international, the role will also have a regional focus—supporting the data science needs of R&D; teams in Europe and Africa
JOB SETTING:
This position is based at the Fall Creek research farm in Sevilla, Spain, and will be expected to be physically present at the research farm every workday.



The position will also require occasional domestic and international travel.
What you'll do at Fall Creek:
Design, engineer, and maintain complex, multi-modal databases for plant phenotypic and environmental data from multiple sources.
Develop, test, and implement data quality models within data processing pipelines.
Implement data governance standards, including metadata and data provenance tracking.
Support company-wide initiatives for AI data readiness.
Act as a liaison between R&D; and IT teams, such as translating data collection needs from biologists into guidance for data pipelines.
Acting as a technical domain expert collaborating with regional colleagues on data science projects, such as designing horticultural management experiments, statistical analysis of breeding trials, and processing of climate time-series data for integrating into forecasting, genomic selection, or other models.
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📌 Data Science Engineer Lead (España)
🏢 Fall Creek
📍 España