Data Engineer Co-op

at  Semios

WHO WE ARE:

We are a bunch of people who really care about agriculture, food and the challenges facing farming. We want to help farmers with data driven decision making to help nature feed a growing population. Join our team of expert engineers, agronomists, entomologists, crop researchers, and data scientists who are continually conducting research to help drive innovation in agriculture.
Semios is a market leader in leveraging the internet-of-things (IoT) and big data to improve the sustainability and profitability of specialty crops. With 500 million data points being reported by our sensors every day, we leverage our big data analytics, such as in-depth pest and disease modeling, to empower tree fruit and tree nut growers with decision-making tools to minimize resources and risks.

Our innovative work has received several industry awards:

• AgTech Breakthrough Awards Program (2023) - Selected as winner of the “Overall Smart Irrigation Company Of The Year” award.
• Sustainability Changemaker by SDTC (2022) - Named as one of the companies which recognize homegrown innovation in sustainable technologies in Canada.
• AgTech Breakthrough Awards Program (2021) – Selected as winner of the “Pest Management Solutions of the Year” award.
• Google Accelerator (2020) – Selected as 1 of 9 companies for the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator Canada cohort, who are all using technology to solve complex challenges.
• Global CleanTech Top 100 (2020) – Identified as one of the companies best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.

One of our partners produced this short video which shows what we do and our positive environmental impact.
We know our journey is only achievable by having a great team that shares ideas, tries new things and learns as we go.
Who you are:
Motivated by meaningful work, you are looking for a collaborative, team environment with the opportunity to learn and grow as you take the initiative to try new things for January 2025.
As a Data Engineer Co-op, you will be part of building the most integrated data platform in Agriculture, which means joining information from many sources. Your job is to build pipelines and supporting tools to combine and deliver the data in a timely manner for the customer

• You’ll work with our internal Data Engineers and Data Scientists to find the most efficient way to ingest, extract, and process new data sources.
• Look for opportunities to reduce platform costs and optimize queries.
• Along the way, you’ll become an automation guru, play a role in our big data platform, and our new AI tooling; deliver tangible results by the end of your term.
• You’ll gain wide exposure to SQL, DBT, Dagster, and time-series databases like Google BigQuery, and Postgres.
• You’ll help monitor the health of our data platform using Mode and Grafana.