What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corn Breeding and Germplasm Evaluation Intern position at Syngenta Group?
Company Description
As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.
Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.
Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.
Job Description
About This Job
We invite you to help us shape the future of agriculture. At Syngenta, we believe every employee has a role to play in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. To support that challenge, the North America Corn Breeding team is looking for an intern to work with our corn breeders and data scientists to execute cutting-edge projects, which bring novel discoveries and technologies to product development, ultimately to create and shape the future of Syngenta’s breeding pipeline. In this role, you will do a rotation within the team, working on a variety of assigned field-based plant breeding and data science projects. Additionally, there will be time to explore the candidate’s unique skill set and career development interests.
As an intern at Syngenta, you will work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, and work on real projects finding real solutions. Work with us and you’ll get:
- Ongoing career development resources & mentorship from scientific experts
- Meaningful projects that solve novel and interesting scientific problems
Estimated Duration: May 2026 – August 2026
Location: Stanton, MN
You will:
- Support plant breeding & data scientists in both field related activities and analytical activities required for maintaining an active corn breeding program
- Perform activities related to planting, note taking throughout plant life cycle, phenotyping, safety, and training
- Assist with managing and developing part-time workers
- Analyze data and prepare a report and presentation for your assigned projects focusing on applying innovative methodology and technology improvements to the northern corn breeding program
- Gather and analyze requirements and develop appropriate data structures
- Transform and structure large datasets for genotypic and phenotypic statistical analysis
- A variety of additional data management skills may be learned and deployed
- The intern will operate in accordance with Syngenta Health, Safety, & Environmental (HSE) standards
Qualifications
What you must have:
- Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent
- Student must be currently pursuing a BS or BA in Data Science, Computer Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Genetics, Agronomy, Statistics, Animal or Plant Science, Plant Breeding or related fields
- Must be a current student continuing education upon completion of the internship term (May 2026 through August 2026)
- Some introductory plant breeding or programming knowledge is an advantage
- Current Sophomore or Junior standing preferred
- All applicants must be eligible to work in the US
- Attention to detail
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Critical thinking
- Ability to multi-task, work independently, as well as part of a team
- Proactive approach to assigned objectives/goals
- Prior experience or course work in data science, computer science, or statistics is preferred
- Prior data management experience is strongly desired
Additional Information
What We Offer:
A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal.
Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI
Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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