Agronomist

Job Title : Agronomist

Location : Calgary, Southern Alberta or Manitoba

Cellar Insights is an innovative early-stage company dedicated to smart monitoring and predictive management solutions for high-value crops, starting with the North American potato industry. Our mission is to minimize losses and optimize logistics in crop storage, addressing sustainability by reducing energy, water, and chemical use. Deployed across North America, our platform analyzes 1.5M+ storage datasets and monitors 300M+ lb of potatoes — and we're just getting started.

We are seeking a curious, hands-on Agronomist to bridge the gap between field reality and data-driven product decisions. This is not a traditional agronomist role — you will spend as much time interrogating sensor data and collaborating with our Engineering and Product teams as you will engaging growers and processors in the field. The ideal candidate has deep agronomic knowledge of potato (or comparable high-value crop) storage, and a genuine appetite for applying that expertise inside a technology company. You are equally comfortable walking a storage facility and reviewing anomaly data at a desk.

We're open to a range of engagement models for this role — full-time, part-time, or a structured advisory/contract arrangement . What matters most is finding the right domain expertise; we're flexible on how we work together.

Key Responsibilities

• Field & Customer Engagement: Conduct site visits with growers and processors across North America to validate product performance, gather domain feedback, and build trusted relationships with our core user base.
• Agronomic Expertise: Serve as the internal authority on potato storage biology, environmental risk factors, and crop quality outcomes — translating that knowledge into language the product and engineering teams can act on.
• Data Validation: Work alongside the Data Scientist and challenge data model assumptions, validate sensor signals against real-world crop outcomes, and identify patterns that improve prediction accuracy.
• Product Collaboration: Partner with the Product Lead to shape feature priorities, define agronomic use cases, and ensure that product decisions are grounded in how growers actually think and operate.
• Knowledge Translation: Produce clear written summaries, annotated datasets, and structured findings that connect agronomic domain knowledge to engineering and analytics workflows.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current on research, industry practices, and emerging storage management techniques — bringing relevant insights back to shape our product roadmap.

Required Certification / Experience

• P.Ag., R.T.Ag., or A.I.T., CPAg (or equivalent, e.g. CCA), Relevant degree in agronomy, crop science, or horticulture.
• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in agronomy, crop science, or a closely related applied field — ideally with direct exposure to potato or other perishable crop storage environments.
• Crop Storage Knowledge: Understanding of post-harvest physiology, storage risk factors (temperature, humidity, CO₂, disease pressure), gas dynamics and quality deterioration mechanisms including disease progression.
• Field & Stakeholder Experience: Demonstrated ability to work directly with growers, agronomists, or processors — communicating technical findings clearly and building credibility in agricultural settings.
• Data Literacy: Comfortable working with data — reviewing sensor outputs, analyzing trends in spreadsheets or dashboards, and translating numerical results into actionable agronomic recommendations.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Experience working alongside non-agronomic colleagues (engineers, product managers, analysts) and contributing domain expertise to shared decisions.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to distill complex agronomic concepts for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with IoT sensor platforms or data-driven monitoring tools used in agricultural or industrial settings.
• Background in precision agriculture, AgTech, or food production systems.

Why This Role Is For You

• Real impact, immediately visible.: In a small, focused team, your agronomic expertise won't gather dust in a report — it will change what we build, how we alert growers, and how we protect millions of dollars of stored crop.
• The domain is genuinely fascinating.: You'll work at the intersection of crop science, environmental sensing, and machine learning — connecting biological reality to algorithmic prediction in ways that are new to the industry.
• The mission matters.: Potato storage losses represent massive food waste and economic harm to family farming operations. The work you do here protects livelihoods, reduces food waste, and proves that precision agriculture works beyond the field.

Submit your resume and covering letter to ***email_hidden*** with the subject line Agronomist Role Application .

Only candidates of interest will be contacted.