Role overview
Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world. Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners. Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.
What you'll work on
- Build end-to-end solutions within the Driscoll’s R&D IT ecosystem, including helping evolve the underlying infrastructure and delivery patterns.
- Design, build, and ship full-stack applications that support R&D workflows and decision-making across breeding, lab, genomics, phenotyping, sensory, and agronomy use cases.
- Develop scalable services, APIs, workflow automations, and modern user interfaces using technologies such as React, TypeScript, Node.js/Express, Python, FastAPI, and relational databases.
- Integrate internal tools, vendor platforms, and off-the-shelf systems through APIs, data flows, authentication/authorization, and workflow automation.
- Build AI-enabled applications such as grounded assistants, retrieval-augmented experiences, workflow copilots, evaluation dashboards, and decision-support interfaces.
- Own the full software lifecycle for what is built: requirements translation, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, support, and iterative improvement.
- Partner closely with scientists, breeders, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into usable, reliable products.
- Help embed AI into real workflows with appropriate traceability, security, auditability, and human oversight.
- Continuously evaluate how modern AI is changing software paradigms, and apply AI tools to improve engineering practices, team productivity, and solution quality.
- Contribute to governed AI delivery by ensuring applications are secure, observable, maintainable, and aligned with approved architecture and data patterns.
- Collaborate with the AI / MLOps Architect on model integration, serving patterns, evaluation flows, observability, and production operations.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, backlog shaping, and solution tradeoff decisions.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical teams.
- Domestic and international travel required up to 10%.
- Represent Driscoll’s in an ethical and professional manner during all interactions with growers, co-workers, suppliers, customers, and the business community at large.
- Ensure the security of Driscoll’s confidential and proprietary information and materials.
What we're looking for
- Depth in data engineering, ML engineering, or applied data science.
- Experience integrating LLMs into products, including retrieval systems, prompt orchestration, evaluation workflows, fine-tuning patterns, or human-in-the-loop experiences.
- Experience building governed data or AI products with lineage, access controls, audit logs, quality gates, and approval flows.
- Professional experience with DevOps, cloud security, and infrastructure-as-code using tools such as GitHub, Docker, and AWS.
- Exposure to AI pipeline operations such as auto-labeling, validation, model training, deployment, or evaluation.
- Exposure to edge inference, computer vision, or embedded systems is a plus.
- Experience in both in-house development solutions and implementation of vendor-delivered applications preferred.
- Experience with scientific data systems, breeding platforms, lab systems, phenotyping pipelines, or similar R&D/life sciences environments.
- Background in ag-biotech, life sciences, or high-throughput scientific workflows preferred. A valid passport and the ability to travel internationally without restrictions.
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