Senior Agronomic Modeler (m/f/d)

BASF Digital Farming GmbH

  • Köln
  • Post Date: 29. April 2024
Jobbeschreibung

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Agriculture is all about balance. In our division Agricultural Solutions, we connect innovative thinking with practical action to find the right balance for success - for farmers, agriculture and future generations. With seeds and traits, crop protection and digital solutions, we help farmers produce food more efficiently, protect the land and meet the needs of society.


Digital Farming provides actionable and field-specific advice to farmers, advisors and business partners worldwide for our xarvio products. For this we build digital solutions for crop management for the xarvio FieldManager, xarvio HealthyFields, ONE SmartSpray and Horta.

  • As Senior Agronomic Modeler, you develop state of the art models for agricultural, environmental and biological processes.
  • You embed these models into decision support systems for crop health management including pests, diseases and weeds as well as enhance field specific decision logics for farmers and advisors.
  • Additionally, you proactively drive the global model development, validation and calibration pipeline automation and train the modeler team.
  • In order to define development and modelling capabilities, you align with agronomy experts and developers worldwide.
  • Last but not least, you define data needs for model development and validation trials and actively monitor and ensure in-season model performance.

  • PhD or master's degree with a proven professional track record
  • in depth knowledge in phytopathology, R&D management, model development, statistics as well as relevant analysis methods
  • profound experience with programming languages including Python, Java is a plus
  • basic experience with data bases
  • excellent communication and presentation skills in English


  • inspiring networks for the development and implementation of your ideas (e.g. Women in Business)
  • learning opportunities for your professional and personal development
  • location-specific preventive services (e.g. medical check-up or flu vaccination) to support your health
  • 30 days of vacation as well as the possibility of special leave and sabbatical model
  • mobile working in Germany
  • flexible working time models (e.g. part-time employment or job sharing)
  • free Deutschlandticket and attractive leasing options for your personal job bike
  • subsidies for moving costs, parking fees and lunch

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