University of Florida
Research Assistant Scientist
🇺🇸 Gainesville, FL
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Research
🗓️ June 24th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead research to improve nutrient management, irrigation, drainage, and water table management using AI, crop modeling, and data science.
- Develop remote sensing and machine learning techniques to minimize destructive sampling in crop monitoring.
- Create advanced web-based decision support tools for growers, extension agents, and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with faculty, postdocs, and students across departments at the University of Florida.
- Establish extramural funded research programs through active grant and contract procurement.
- Required skills include developing AI crop models, programming in Python or R, and familiarity with high-performance computing.
- Doctorate in agricultural and biological engineering or related discipline is required.
- Preferred qualifications include postdoctoral experience, knowledge of crop physiology, soil nutrient and water dynamics, crop-climate modeling (e.g., DSSAT), and advanced remote sensing and AI methods such as computer vision and deep learning architectures.
- Non-tenure-track, 12-month position focused 100% on research within the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.
- Salary commensurate with education and experience.
Similar Jobs
Researcher 3 Social Behavioral Science
University of Houston
🇺🇸 Houston, TX
Research Compliance Specialist II
The University of Texas at Dallas
🇺🇸 Richardson, TX
Research Assistant, Early Childhood Assessor
University of Denver
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, FL
Research Professional 3
University of Alaska
🇺🇸 Anchorage, AK
Research Coordinator III
University of Florida
🇺🇸 Gainesville, FL
