Junior Data Engineer/Scientist

BioScout is seeking a Junior Data Engineer/Scientist to join their team in Marrickville, NSW. The role involves maintaining and innovating data systems, writing clean code, collaborating with engineers, and developing scalable data pipelines. Candidates should have a passion for tech, a background in data or statistics, and experience in Python. The position offers a full-time salary of A$70K–A$80K, with reasonable flexibility, but is not remote.
About Bioscout

BioScout is a leading AgTech startup focused on early detection and management of airborne crop diseases. Using patented biological sensor technology, we provide farmers with real-time data to manage disease outbreaks, improve yields, and reduce chemical use. Our award winning technology is recognized as one of the top 100 innovative companies in Australia.

What you’ll be doing

As a junior data engineer, you’ll be part of the data team responsible for maintaining and innovating our data systems. You’ll ensure our data is fast, reliable, accurate, powerful, and accessible for our customers. Building with scale and maintainability in mind whilst innovating new ways our data can provide value is the key to success. Some key activities include:
• Write clean, testable code with support from senior team members
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team rituals
• Collaborate with engineers across firmware, software, and hardware
• Build, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines to process and integrate data from our global network of microscopy sensors with our AI capabilities.
• Exploratory analysis and modelling of our data
• Innovate, develop, and maintain dashboards and other analytics for customers within the business.
• Provide analytics and data for our science team and industry partners to do research with

We’re looking for someone who has
• Passion for solving real-world problems with tech
• A background in data, or statistics, with a keen interest in working on complex data challenges related to disease detection and image analysis at scale.
• A software engineering focused approach to data
• Experience writing python
• Curious mindset and eagerness to learn new tools and technologies
• If you don’t meet all the requirements listed, don’t worry, apply anyway! We’d love to hear from you, enthusiasm about our mission is far more important than matching this checklist perfectly.

Bonus Points
• Experience with image data processing and analysis.
• Experience in agriculture, science, or adjacent industries.
• Interest in innovating our machine learning capabilities
• This is not mandatory but being interested in AI is a great fit for us, we’re not expecting you to transform our AI but it's an opportunity for you to learn about computer vision and neural networks, which are skills we’ll help support you in growing if you desire.

What We Offer
• Full-time salary + Super + Equity Options
• Work on a mission-driven product already in use across farms in Australia and overseas, helping make agriculture more sustainable and efficient.
• We’re building a supportive, cross-functional environment where engineers work closely with sales and deployment teams, are entrusted with real responsibility, and have growth opportunities.
• Reasonable flexibility with hours, with most of the team based on-site in our Marrickville office and workshop