Do you want to help build real technology for a meaningful purpose? Do you want to fight to make the world’s fresh produce healthier, tastier, and more sustainable? 

As a Data Analyst at Tortuga, you’ll be the link between revolutionary farm robots, the data they collect, and the farmers they’re helping. You’ll use your passion for descriptive statistical analysis, communicating meaningful data-driven insights, and finding signal in noise to provide groundbreaking, decision-changing information to our operations team and farmer customers. You’ll help make sense of what we’re learning, and help us drive from prototype to product in the world of actionable agricultural information. 

As an early employee at Tortuga, you’ll be fundamental to our success, growth, and culture. You’ll bring experience and a passion for our mission while also thriving in a fast-paced, flexible, and energized startup environment. You’re excited to grow your role and skills as Tortuga grows. 

What you’ll do

• Work with our existing data systems to extract useful performance data and metrics for Tortuga and for our grower customers

• Help to design statistical or ML models to work with and predict grower yields, pest problems, and other revolutionary metrics

• Shape the future of our data logging systems to facilitate the success of above objectives

• Automate reports and present data in an effective, pleasing, and informative way

• Dig deep into data to extract less obvious correlations and metrics

• Help maintain the existing AWS infrastructure and contribute to its continued development.

What we’re looking for

• Required: 2-4 years experience in a similar data analytics role

• Required: B.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytical Sciences (biology, ecology, etc.), Statistics, or related field 

• Required: Programming experience in Python and/or R

• Familiarity with analysis tools (Tableau, Google Data Studio, etc.)

• Experience with AWS preferred

• Front end web knowledge a plus

• Startup experience a major plus

• Good communication skills

The base salary range below represents the low and high end of our salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel. The range listed is just one component of Tortuga’s total compensation package for employees. To apply and see a complete list of our benefits, go to: https://www.tortugaagtech.com/careers

Denver area base salary range: $65,000 - $85,000 per year. 

Please note you must be authorized to work in the United States for this position.

 A word about COVID-19

We are highly sensitive to the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic brings to people, as team members and as individuals at home. We want you to be safe, to keep our team safe, and to do our part to help reduce the impact of the pandemic. We are an Essential Business and we are now primarily working in our office. Our office abides by all COVID-19 guidelines established by the State of Colorado, including a strict Social Distancing policy as well as clear guidelines for wiping down surfaces and equipment, washing hands, and wearing masks.

About Tortuga

Tortuga AgTech’s mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving planet, through smarter farming. We’re pursuing our mission by building robotic harvesting and precision analytics systems for the world’s leading fresh produce growers (delicious things like strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and herbs). We’re building not just because it’s fun, but because we believe thoughtful, well-built advanced technology can help farmers grow healthier, fresher, more environmentally sustainable produce for everyone. We’re backed by some of the most respected early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, as well as ag industry veterans. 

Tortuga means “turtle” in Spanish. Around the world, turtles are symbols of wisdom, patience, and connectedness to the Earth. We’re proud to be based in Denver, CO - a growing and leading robotics hub in North America, and a great place to live! 

Tortuga is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law