Senior Research Manager, Weather Data Systems

🕒 5 days ago

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Precision Development (PxD)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🌾 Agriculture

🤝 Non-profit

Agriculture • Technology • Non-profit

Precision Development (PxD) is an organization dedicated to supporting smallholder farmers through data-driven innovations and sustainable agricultural methods. By designing, testing, and scaling income-enhancing solutions, PxD aims to improve the economic outcomes and livelihoods of millions of farmers globally. Their initiatives focus on enhancing digital agriculture services, providing strategic government advice, and promoting climate-smart farming practices, thereby fostering sustainable growth in the agricultural sector.

📋 Description

• Design, test, evaluate, and scale evidence-based weather solutions for smallholder farmers • Design and oversee a pipeline converting real-time scientific forecast data into location-specific farmer messages automatically • Adapt the pipeline to different dissemination vendors and channels, including voice, SMS, WhatsApp, apps, and LLM-powered advisory systems • Minimize latency and ensure fast, error-free delivery of time-sensitive forecast information • Own technical and process requirements for replicating the pipeline across geographies and use cases • Translate scientific forecast outputs and technical system constraints for research and program teams • Oversee data management, quality checks, and pipeline testing as it scales • Document pipeline architecture, decision logic, and rationale • Coordinate with dissemination teams to ensure automated messages meet field research standards • Guide teams on data quality and technical rigor for new use cases and geographies • Provide guidance to Associate and Manager level staff • Contribute to funding proposals, reports, and institutional knowledge management on weather data systems

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field (computer science, data science, engineering, statistics, or similar); economics or agricultural economics backgrounds with strong technical skills also considered • Experience building or managing a data pipeline, ideally involving real-time or automated data processing • Working knowledge of Python, SQL, or similar tools and languages • Ability to work across technical and non-technical teams, translating between forecast science, engineering, and program needs • Experience designing systems meant to be replicated or scaled, not just built once • Strong documentation habits and ability to make a technical system legible to people who did not build it • Strong writing and oral communication skills in English • Existing authorization to work in India; PxD is unable to sponsor visas

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements to support your wellbeing