Resson’s new motto could be: Have Money. Will Hire.
The Fredericton agriculture technology company last week announced it had raised US$11 million (C$14 million) from Monsanto Growth Ventures and other investors to expand its team and open a Silicon Valley office. Now the company has fours openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board and is the highlight today of our Jobs of the Week column.
We’ll also look at Carleton Manor, a Woodstock, N.B., nursing home that is looking for a chief executive officer.
Founded three years ago by Peter Goggin and Rishin Behl, Resson has created software to assess data from a range of sources on a farm. They developed a system called RAMAS, which collects data from such sources as tractors, sensors buried in the field, and aerial drones flying over the field. It brings all the information together and presents the farmer with a report on what is happening in his field and what actions need to be taken.
The company is looking for software developers, an agronomist and an optical engineer.
Carleton Manor is now an 80-bed nursing home under renovations to expand to a 110-bed facility that specializes in providing nursing care and services to adult clients.
The Jobs of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and start-up communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Qimple.
Fredericton
Resson
The successful candidate will help to apply Resson's machine-learning engine to multiple levels of agricultural data under observation. He or she will assess the data collected by the analytics team and work with others to use the data to improve farm yields. This work will be done in collaboration with machine vision and robotic systems engineers, corporate agronomists and agricultural operators. The candidate will help to design and monitor field experiments. Resson is looking for someone with a bachelor degree in agronomy and crop science or an agricultural field.
This person will immediately be involved in a rapidly expanding project to bring computer vision to agriculture. The goal is to integrate and optimize hardware systems, linking optical technologies to farm-management equipment to meet defined requirements. The work will be carried out in both lab and field environments, moving quickly through calibration, testing and deployment phases. Resson is looking for a candidate familiar with computer vision hardware, experienced in troubleshooting and failure analysis and someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The company would like someone with a master’s degree in optics, computer vision, electrical engineering or computer science.
Computer Vision Software Developer
Resson has actually posted two openings for software developers, including a computer vision developer. The computer vision software developer will contribute to the development of an image classification system for agriculture. The ideal candidate will be driven by his or her own creativity and ingenuity and a passion to pioneer the capabilities of state-of-the-art machine-learning and image-processing solutions. The role requires a robust understanding of the theory and practice of computer-vision techniques and the related fields of algorithm development. Resson is looking for someone with two to five years’ experience in a similar role and a bachelor or master’s degree in computer science.
The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of development, from rapid prototyping through to implementation, testing, and integration. In addition to being familiar with front-end and back-end development technologies (including Java and cross-platform mobile technologies), the applicant would benefit from experience with image processing, machine learning, and/or high-performance computing. Resson is looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and two to five years’ experience in a similar role.
Woodstock, N.B.
Carleton Manor
Carleton Manor is looking for someone to provide leadership and organize the nursing home to effectively and efficiently provide services to residents. The successful candidate must manage human resources and maintain an excellent rapport with the residents, their families, the community, related agencies and government departments. The nursing home is looking for someone with proven leadership and management skills and excellent decision making skills regarding financial and budget issues. The candidate must have strong financial, communications and team-building skills, and preference will be given to people who have worked in long-term care. Carleton Manor is looking for a candidate with at least five years’ senior management experience.
