Plant Health Risk Assessment Scientist / Uberlândia - MG

Bayer; Uberlândia; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A Bayer está recrutando para a área de Plant Health em Uberlândia, Brasil. A posição envolve desenvolver e implantar modelos de risco de doenças e pragas, avaliar riscos em culturas de grãos e hortaliças, e fornecer insights técnicos para equipes de Breeding e R&D.

Você trabalhará com equipes multiculturais, aplicando técnicas de modelagem, epidemiologia e IA para ampliar o acesso a insights acionáveis. Requer PhD e fluência em inglês e português, com atuação presencial no local.

Qualifications

• Doutorado em Saúde de Plantas, Fitopatologia ou área relacionada.
• Conhecimento sólido de plantas daninhas, doenças e riscos para culturas de suas regiões.
• Fluência em Inglês e Português.
• Excelentes habilidades de colaboração e comunicação com equipes multiculturais no Brasil, Índia e França.
• Capacidade de propor soluções rápidas e eficazes para equipes.

Responsibilities

• Desenvolver e implantar modelos globais de risco de doenças e pragas.
• Avaliar riscos de plantas para culturas de grãos e hortaliças.
• Desenvolver abordagens para entender a dinâmica de doenças e pragas e impactos em rendimento.
• Fornecer insights técnicos para equipes de Plant Health, Breeding e R&D.
• Construir parcerias transfuncionais conectando germoplasma, traços nativos e práticas agronômicas.
• Desenvolver ferramentas de forecasting e interfaces de apoio à decisão.
• Contribuir para a comunidade Global Plant Health em áreas de avaliação de risco e modelagem.

Skills

Inglês fluente

Português fluente

Colaboração eficaz

Comunicação assertiva

Trabalho com stakeholders multicultura

Education

PhD em Saúde de Plantas / Fitopatologia ou área relacionada

Tools

Machine Learning

Modelagem epidemiológica

Análise de Big Data

Job description

At Bayer, our mission “Health for all, Hunger for none” guides everything we do. Through Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO), we foster an agile, collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone has a voice, takes ownership and contributes with their unique skills. Join us to innovate, grow and make an impact. Be yourself. We are Bayer.

GET TO KNOW OUR AREA

The Plant Health team works directly with Breeding and Row Crop across row crops and vegetables to anticipate disease and pest threats and enable a more proactive response.

YOUR MISSION WILL BE

• Develop and deploy global disease and pest risk models to anticipate emerging threats and support timely decisions across the crop portfolio.
• Assess plant health risks for row crops and vegetables to enable proactive disease and pest management.
• Develop innovative approaches to understand disease and pest dynamics and quantify potential impacts on crop yield and performance.
• Provide technical and analytical insights to Plant Health, early- and late-pipeline teams to advance Breeding and broader R&D objectives.
• Build cross-functional partnerships connecting germplasm, native traits, agronomic practices and crop protection to develop integrated solutions.
• Develop and deploy forecasting tools and interactive decision-support interfaces to expand access to actionable plant health insights.
• Contribute to the Global Plant Health Community on risk assessment, yield-loss modelling, climate-related risks and product concept projects.

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU

Must have

• PhD in Plant Health, Plant Pathology or a related field.
• Solid technical knowledge of plant pests and diseases, with the ability to assess and anticipate risks for row crops and vegetables.
• Fluency in English and Portuguese.
• Strong collaboration and impactful communication skills, with the ability to work with multicultural stakeholders in Brazil, India and France.
• Unlock the passion and energy of teams to deliver greater value efficiently.
• Empower teams and promote collaboration across the network.

Availability to work on-site in Uberlândia.

Nice to have

• Experience working at the interface of Plant Health, Breeding and Row Crop and in projects with global scope.
• Demonstrated experience in plant disease epidemiology, predictive risk modelling and simulations, meta-analysis, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Knowledge of pest, disease and/or nematode management, vector biology and ecology, including Breeding and Crop Protection approaches.
• Experience applying new technologies and analytical tools to generate insights from large-scale datasets.
• Working knowledge of field phenotyping, disease diagnostics, advanced breeding methodologies, and disease surveillance and monitoring.
• Não atende a todos os requisitos desejáveis? Candidate-se mesmo assim: valorizamos diferentes trajetórias e experiências.

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK HERE

Working hours: Standard business hours at the Uberlândia site.

Período de Candidatura: 13/11/2026 Código de Referência: 894615

Divisão: Crop Science Localização: Brasil : Minas Gerais : Uberlândia

Tipo de Emprego: Regular Horário de Trabalho: Standard business hours at the Uberlândia site.