Post-Doctoral Associate - Pickering Lab

Position Summary

Agentic AI is rapidly changing nearly every domain, from academia to industry. Agriculture is no different. These postdoctoral opportunity will look to research and build agentic scientific AI systems that can design, predict, and optimize agricultural outcomes—across crops, environments, and management regimes. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to develop the next generation of Agentic AI for Agricultural Design and Prediction, spanning genomics agents, crop growth model agents, and scientific agent workflows.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop Agentic AI systems for agricultural design & prediction (70%)
• Create benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation protocols (15%)
• Career development & scholarly dissemination (15%)