Data Technician (Animal Behavior)

The role is open to remote or local to MO 

Description:

Our Client is dedicated to ensuring the best lives possible for the pets we love.
We believe that connected-pet products (i.e. collars, bowls, etc) on and around a pet will be valuable tools in enabling a better future for our pets through our ability to translate a pets data into meaningful, actionable insight for the pet owner.
As the world-leader in PetCare, Our Client is actively acquiring pet data at-scale which will be used as input into identifying relevant descriptive, predictive and prescriptive insights. Their deep expertise in pet health and wellness, positions them well to translate these data-enabled insights into actionable advice and recommendations to pet owners.

The person contracted for this role will be part of an active team focused on the acquisition of behavioral data from pets interacting with connected-pet products. Further, this person will work collaboratively withClient’s many pet experts and technical teams.
If you get excited about being part of something big…something that will be transformational to the future of PetCare…apply to join our team; together we can make a difference in the lives of pets around the world.

Summary:
Our Client is actively seeking a skilled and dynamic technician excited about the opportunity to improve the health and wellness of pets by acquiring pet data through use of pet IoT products in-homes and in our world-leading research centers. This is a contract position for 12 months with the opportunity to renew if business needs allow. This person will be a member on an agile team with a global responsibility and will have the opportunity to play a central role and wear many hats.

The Global Digital Solutions Group is responsible to develop algorithms and AI that deliver personalized behavior, health, wellness and nutrition insights from a pet’s acquired data. This position is part of the team responsible for the collection of the high-quality pet-training data (sensor data, labelled video and other data in time-series) used as the primary input supporting Client data scientist development of the insight-generating AI within Client’s commercial IoT, diagnostic and other digital products. The primary responsibility for this position will be video labeling pet behavior from recorded footage and aligning this with sensor data.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in Biology, Zoology, Psychology, Animal Science or related discipline, with an emphasis in Animal Behavior, or experience in collection/labeling of behavioral data from video/sensors
• Experience using behavior coding software (e.g., Noldus, Mangold or similar software is preferred) or processes (e.g., direct labeling in Excel or custom software) to label behavior from video footage
• Research experience with animals or people
• Ability to work with internal/external customers to assess needs, aid, and resolve problems, using excellent problem-solving skills and verbal/written communication to non-technical audiences
• 1-3 years experience

Skills:
• Excellent communication, analytical, facilitation and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail
• The ability to communicate to others through insightful visualizations, reports and presentations
• Quantitative reasoning and practical thinking
• Ability to write and maintain technical and non-technical instructions in the use of programs/reports and/or program/report/ modifications, in addition to presenting results as needed
• Strong organizational, communication and project management skills
• Must be a highly motivated, independent and able to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment

Software:
• Noldus, Mangold

 

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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