Tysonfoods

Tysonfoods

Quantitative Geneticist - Cobb Vantress Corporate (Siloam Springs, AR)

Cobb Vantress Corporate - Siloam Springs, Arkansas

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
PythonC++AlgorithmsData ScienceStatisticsRecruitingAR/VRBioinformaticsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This role is essential for maximizing genetic gain and strengthening the competitive performance of Cobb products.
  • This position offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the scientific and strategic advancement of Cobb's breeding programs.
  • Desired Skillset & Areas of Responsibility

Responsibilities

  • Optimize breeding goals, selection indexes, and trait definitions to maximize accuracy and long‑term genetic progress.
  • Design, research, and deploy algorithms and strategies that improve breeding program efficiency, sustainability, and genetic gain.
  • Contribute expertise to long‑term breeding program architecture, including simulation, scenario testing, and decision‑support analytics.
  • Perform advanced data wrangling, processing, and computational analysis to support genetic evaluations and research projects.
  • Support development and maintenance of robust pipelines for model deployment, genomic prediction, simulation, and imputation.
  • Lead and coordinate quantitative genetics projects to support companywide strategic objectives.
  • Collaborate effectively with internal teams, external researchers, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • PhD in Genetics, Genomics, Animal Breeding, or a closely related field (required).
  • 8+ years of relevant quantitative genetics experience with demonstrated scientific and/or industry contributions (required).
  • Proficiency with computational tools used in genetics and breeding, such as Python, R, C++, BLUPF90, FImpute, genomic pipelines, and simulation tools.
  • Education
  • Experience
  • Experience in animal or agricultural breeding industries is beneficial.

Skills

  • Capabilities in statistical modeling, algorithm development, and large‑scale data management.
  • Professional Skills
  • Outstanding communication skills-both written and verbal.
  • Strong interpersonal abilities, teamwork orientation, and independent problem‑solving.
  • Demonstrated initiative, curiosity, and drive for innovation.
  • Relocation Assistance Eligible:
  • Work Shift:
  • 1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
  • We provide our team members and their families with paid time off
  • 401(k) plans

Benefits

  • All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
  • We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.
  • Our vision - "Responsibly and efficiently feed the world"-drives our commitment to innovation, technology, and genetic progress.
  • Develop, evaluate, and implement state‑of‑the‑art genetic and genomic evaluation models, including linear, Bayesian, and machine‑learning-based approaches.

Company info

  • Cobb‑Vantress is a global genetics improvement company and an industry leader in poultry breeding.

Equal opportunity

  • Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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