**Europe Seed Product Development Breeding Scientist** **Job Opportunity** _Corteva Agriscience is a global leader of seed, crop protection, and digital solutions in agriculture. We have an open position in our R&D organization for an inquisitive, creative, eager to learn, early career scientist to work at the intersection of world class statistics, computer science and seed product design to support our breeding operations in Europe._ _This Scientist position will reside within the Europe Breeding Analyst Team, which discovers, adapts, develops and supports state-of-the-art statistical methodology, breeding methods and germplasm strategies to optimize short and long-term genetic gain within Europe Seed Product Development. The position will also help us to develop and deploy the biological Whole Genome Prediction (BioWGP) methodology across Europe and beyond._ **Responsibilities** Provide analytic, experiment planning and decision support to our ongoing breeding operations for the early maturity corn region in Europe. In particular for tasks relating to genomic prediction driven breeding. Help develop, optimize and deploy novel breeding strategies and methods for this region. Collaborate with subject matter experts to develop, explore and deploy the BioWGP methodology within Europe and globally. **Job Qualification - Experience and Education Requirements** + PhD in Plant Breeding, Quantitative Genetics, Physiology or Computational Biology. + Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with individuals of diverse language, cultural, and scientific backgrounds. **Job Qualification - Technical Requirements** + Solid foundation in mathematical modelling and statistical analysis methods as well as numerical methods such as stochastic optimization and simulation. + A solid foundation in quantitative genetics, genomic prediction, plant physiology and crop modeling. + Demonstrated intermediate to advanced scientific computing and programming skills in R. Knowledge of other scripting languages like Python and compiled languages like C is a plus. + Ability and confidence to manage and manipulate large data sets. + Comfortable in a Linux development environment and with terminal and remote-access applications. + Knowledge of practical aspects of plant breeding is a plus but not a requirement. + Willingness to learn about and operate in a commercial seed business setting. To know more about Corteva please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3D-Avk4ZLc Corteva Agriscience™ is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to boldly embracing the power of inclusion, diversity, and equity to enrich the lives of our employees and strengthen the performance of our company, while advancing equity in agriculture. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. Discrimination, harassment and retaliation are inconsistent with our values and will not be tolerated. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit:Accessibility Page for Contact Information For US Applicants: See the ‘Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law’ poster. To all recruitment agencies: Corteva does not accept unsolicited third party resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.