<div dir="ltr">Dear Sir or Madam, <div><br></div><div style>I would like to post the following job to your board. </div><div style><br></div><div style>Link and description are below. Thanks - Ron</div><div style><br></div>
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</div><div style><br></div><div style><p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">Job Title:<span class=""> </span> Data Engineer</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Department:<span class=""> Analytics</span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,49,49)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Supervisor:<span class=""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Director of
Analytics<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Classification:<span class=""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)"> Full time, Regular</span><span style="color:rgb(51,49,49)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Location: San Francisco, CA<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">FLSA
Status:<span class=""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)"> Exempt</span><span style="color:rgb(51,49,49)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Solum is seeking a versatile and talented data engineer to join
our Analytics group with the mission to provide innovative analysis to enhance
the profitability and productivity of farms.
The ideal candidate will use machine learning to develop new insights
and analyses that inform agricultural decisions. He/she should be excited to build and train
models to forecast and maximize crop yield of farms based on available data
drawn from diverse sources, ranging from USGS satellite imagery and/or DEMs to
USDA soil survey information. He/she
should be comfortable discussing and programming algorithms to perform scalable
analysis on large data sets. Significant
scientific programming experience is a must (prefer python or R), along with
the ability to distill general problems into actionable analysis. He/she will work closely with an exciting,
diverse group of scientific, agronomic, and software experts to develop
agronomic insight products targeted to the producers and agronomists who are
developing precision agriculture programs.</span><span style="color:rgb(50,50,50)"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18pt"> </p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">About
Solum</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Solum is creating new technology to make the business of
agriculture simpler and more productive. We develop software, analysis
services, and new soil measurements to help growers and their advisors manage
farms efficiently, improve crop yields, and optimize use of inputs. Solum is
bringing the best of Silicon Valley cloud, mobile and big data analytics
technology to agriculture, one of the world’s largest and most important
industries.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)"> Solum is a
venture-backed start-up headquartered in the SOMA district of San Francisco. The
company also has a significant presence in Ames, Iowa, where it operates a
state-of-the-art soil testing laboratory. The company is backed by Khosla
Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. Our team of 25 people are
experts from a broad set of disciplines – software development, data science,
chemistry, physics, agronomy, and business.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)"> Since the
introduction of precision farming technology and techniques over 15 years ago,
advanced growers and their advisors have generated significant volumes of
geospatial data about their soils, crops and yields. However, the current
industry desktop software packages make it difficult to manage this data and
turn it into actionable information. Solum is developing a cloud and
mobile-first software platform that will greatly simply the transport, storage,
analysis, and sharing of precision agriculture data. Solum’s intuitive, tablet
interface gives crop advisors and growers access to the information they need
to make critical agronomy and farm management decisions in the field.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Functions
and Responsibilities:</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Plan and execute the Analytics strategy - in particular, provide
analytical insight to our customers to aid in increasing crop yields and
optimizing crop inputs such as fertilizer</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Provide algorithm and programming development for extracting
features important to plant growth</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Integrate diverse data sets to build statistical models of crop
response</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Mapping and overlaying of data layers </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Conduct exploratory data analysis</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Verification and validation of resource data layers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Aid in the design and analysis of experiments to test model
predictions</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Education/Experience:</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">3+ years of experience harnessing information from large data
sets, data mining, machine learning, data modeling, and forecasting </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">B.S. from a 4 year university within statistics, bioinformatics,
computer science, applied mathematics, engineering, or science related field
preferred. MS or PhD is preferred.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Expertise in scientific programming; R and/or Python experience
is a plus</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Understanding of implementing
algorithms to extract information from large data sets, as well as uncertainty
interpretation and its influence on modeling and business decisions </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Working knowledge of map generation / building</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Familiarity with GIS systems is a plus</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Knowledge and experience in soil, water, and agronomic
management practices is a plus</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Demonstrated ability to solve problems and make decisions
independently</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:17.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,49,49)">Excellent interpersonal and communication skills</span></p></div></div>