Job Description

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

AI/ML Engineer

As an AI/ML Engineer within Bayer Crop Science’s Product Supply organization, you will design, develop, and deploy AI systems and machine learning models to automate processes and solve business problems. You will provide strategic, analytical, and technical expertise to solve critical business problems based on data, and will help collect, clarify, and translate business requirements into an analytical usecases You will also be responsible forcreating models including data collection and analysis, defining information requirements, maintenanceand enhancements, to help drive key business.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end AI/ML and agent-based systems, from problem definition and model development to production deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement to solve business problems.

• Focus on simulating human learning activities, improving system performance through data analysis, and developing deep learning frameworks and systems.

• Collaborate with data engineers to build robust data pipelines and ensure high-quality training data

• Design scalable, reliable services on major cloud platforms; strong CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.

• Translate customer requirements to business solutions using data pipelines and statical models.

• Build & maintain scalable ML infrastructure, including training pipelines, feature stores, and model serving systems

• Contribute to MLOps best practices, including CI/CD for ML, model versioning, and A/B testing frameworks

• Create exploratory analysis, model design & training, validation, feature engineering, production handoff to drive business optimization

• Responsible for constructing, studying, and training algorithms that learn from complex, high-dimensional data to uncover patterns and develop practical predictive models and applications.

• Document architectures, experiments, and results clearly for technical and non-technical stakeholders to support current work and any retraining for the future.

• Data, model, and agent pipeline engineering (e.g., workflow orchestration, model lifecycle management, automated retraining/rollouts).

• Orchestration and integration across components (agent frameworks, containers, web services/APIs, distributed systems).

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science + 8 years hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining end-to-end or related field OR 15+ years' experience in data engineering or related field

• AI/ML systems in production environments. Solid knowledge of backend system design, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, agent-based workflows, and production support for scalable AI/ML platforms.

• Fluency in multiple coding languages including SQL and Python and ML frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to coalesce group thinking into definable projects and holding team members accountable for their responsibilities

• History of meeting tight deadlines and providing accurate estimates of time required to complete complex tasks

• Experience building and deploying production ML system using ML algorithms, deep learning, and statistical modeling

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking

• Effective communication with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward experimentation

Preferred:

• Fluency in AWS, GCP, Gemini, and Copilot preferred, including containerization technologies and orchestration tools

• Advanced Excel skills preferred

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $117k-171k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant).  Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc..  This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 6/2/26.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
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Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

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Location: United States : Residence Based : Residence Based || United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur
Division: Crop Science
Reference Code: 870128
Contact Us
Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com