Plant Science Research Intern
What would you be doing?
As a Plant Science Research Intern at Adaviv, you will be working with our Plant Scientist, CEO, COO and advisors to write grant proposals, develop in-house R&D experiments and develop knowledge and data bases around the core concepts of plant health and pathology and integrated pest management as they relate to Adaviv’s state-of-the-art sensing, computer vision, optics and AI technologies.
You’ll have the opportunity to make a big impact for both the company and our customers. We bring both scientific rigor and design-to-value thinking to all dimensions of our product development and R&D to continually improve the value and impact of our products for the customer. Thus, you’ll be able to gain equal experience and exposure to the development of high-risk innovative research and fast-paced design-to-value product development. This is a full-time internship (40 hours/week) for the summer period (late May - September), though there are opportunities to start earlier in a part-time role and/or continue past the summer.
Who are we looking for?
You are a team player, with superb written and oral communication skills and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. We value a can do-will do mindset, thirst to continually learn and effective, respectful communication. You have passion for biology, plants and agriculture and would bring a unique perspective and ideas to our diverse team, helping us to cultivate empathy for our customers and for fellow team members. Your ideas and skills will ideally come from a diverse set of experiences across research, industry and self-motivated projects. Clear, descriptive and compelling writing is fundamental to your work and you possess a solid familiarity with experimental design. You also thrive in ambiguity, while demonstrating the ability to help your team raise the bar on customer experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Help write research grant applications that draw on Adaviv’s current technology stack and build upon concepts and ideas captured in our product roadmap and patents.
- Help design and budget plant pathology and pest management greenhouse experiments.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer via reports, presentations, and team interactions.
- Research horticulture industry best practices and Integrated Pest Management market solutions; build knowledge and databases based on industry and scientific research.
- Work collaboratively inside a tight-knit team and fast-paced environment; manage interns.
- Design work plans aligned with established milestones and KPIs; track workstream KPIs.
- Remain current with state-of-the-art developments in crop monitoring and pest/disease treatment technologies and provide insight on emerging technologies.
Degree Requirement:
- B.Sc or M.Sc in Plant Science, Environmental Sciences, Agriculture/Agronomy or a relevant field.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Scientific and research grant writing experience and exceptional writing skills.
- Experience in designing controlled biological experiments.
- Solid knowledge of statistical methods and commonly used programming languages or software (R, Python, SQL, Excel)
- Strong knowledge on crop production, specifically controlled-environment agriculture.
- Strong knowledge on common crop plant diseases and disease/pest/pathogen pathways.
Other Valued Skills and Qualifications:
- Have written successful research awards, funding and granting applications.
- Expertise or familiarity with crop remote sensing technologies.
- Experience working in greenhouse crop production.
- Proven ability to be highly productive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and an ability to make informed, quick decisions in a complex problem space.
AdaViv thrives on the diversity of its team members. We are an equal opportunity employer. We seek and celebrate our diversity and are committed to growing in this area together and constantly raising the bar of creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees.
With our core beliefs in action we will be a fun, stimulating, creative, collaborative and successful organization. If this sounds like the type of company you’d like to be a part of and want to help us change how we grow food and medicines for the better, then please apply on Handshake and/or email apply@adaviv.com with the subject: “Plant Research Intern - <First and Last name>”. We look forward to hearing from you!