Hybrid AI Scientist for Agriculture R&D & Innovation

precision-ai; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision AI is seeking an Artificial Intelligence Scientist to drive research and applied AI initiatives at the intersection of advanced AI and agricultural applications. You will conceive and translate novel AI approaches into practical, production-ready solutions that address real-world farming challenges.

You will shape the scientific direction, design research-driven projects, and advance state-of-the-art models in computer vision, NLP, and multimodal settings, collaborating with agronomy

Qualifications

• PhD required or equivalent research record in AI/ML.
• Proven publication track record in AI, ML, CV, or NLP.
• Experience translating research into production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead applied AI research to develop novel approaches for agricultural challenges such as crop monitoring, yield forecasting, and sustainability.
• Explore and prototype emerging AI paradigms, including reasoning-enhanced LLMs, self-reflection, and self-supervised learning.
• Translate research ideas into validated prototypes and production-ready methods.
• Design and evaluate models across computer vision, NLP, time-series, and multimodal learning.
• Advance model robustness, generalization, and efficiency under real-world agricultural constraints.
• Integrate domain knowledge from agronomy, climate, and geospatial data into model design.
• Mentor engineers and scientists on research methodology and experimental analysis.
• Communicate findings through reports and presentations.

Skills

AI/ML model design

Research leadership

Python programming

Cross-functional collaboration

Model deployment

Experimental design

Communication

Distributed data processing

Education

PhD in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, or mathematics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

CI/CD tooling

MLflow

Job description

Precision AI is seeking an Artificial Intelligence Scientist to drive research and applied AI initiatives at the intersection of advanced AI and agricultural applications. You will conceive and translate novel AI approaches into practical, production-ready solutions that address real-world farming challenges.

You will shape the scientific direction, design research-driven projects, and advance state-of-the-art models in computer vision, NLP, and multimodal settings, collaborating with agronomy