About Indigo

We’re an international startup aspiring to revolutionize a budding industry where agriculture meets technology. Through the use of data-driven insights, natural microbiology, and innovative digital technologies, Indigo is partnering across the supply chain, ultimately cultivating a scalable climate solution and enhanced ecosystem that beneficially serves farmers, consumers, and the planet alike.

Our mission is unique, and therefore our teams are too: from multigenerational farming experts, who understand the land as though it were an extension of themselves, to cutting-edge technologists and scientists on the frontier of innovation, our teams are a reflection of the range of the stakeholders we serve: the Earth, the Farmer, and the Consumer. Indigo is extraordinary, and we owe that to the people who make up our community and enable success through the diversity of thought, experience, background, perspective, race, sexuality, gender, age, and everything else that makes a person uniquely themselves. Connected by a common vision and empowered by diversity, we aren’t ordinary, and neither are you. Embrace your career and join Indigo in cultivating a healthier planet fueled by unique game-changers.

About the Internship Program 

Our 12-week 2022 summer graduate internship program has a focus on providing technical training and professional development opportunities to students, including from groups historically underrepresented in tech. Our interns are an integral part of Indigo and fully integrated into the Remote Sensing Group. As a technical intern with us, you will have the opportunity to work on a software project alongside other interns and full-time Indigo scientists and engineers. You’ll have the exciting responsibility of tackling the hard problems in geospatial technology; You will work on projects that matter, and we will rely on your skills and insight to help us solve real problems. Our unique internship offers the chance to bridge the gap between academic understanding and practical, professional experience.

About the Remote Sensing Team

The Indigo Remote Sensing Group designs and builds systems to detect grower management practices and agricultural patterns from space and uses those insights to help growers profitably and sustainably feed the planet. We are a multidisciplinary team of geographers, earth scientists, remote sensing engineers, software engineers, and data scientists. Our products are powered by services that systematically pool data from field observations, geometric features, machine data, and a variety of satellite data streams, enabling our customers both best-in-class remote sensing-derived situational awareness of their farm state as well as the ability to make decisions that advance business and environmental sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to one or more software projects, for example:
• Automate and scale geospatial and ML / AI / computer vision workflows in a cloud environment
• Combine two or more data sources into a new virtual instrument (data fusion for analysis ready data)
• Learn how to ingest, catalog, and serve large amounts of spatial data 
• Build internal tools for data visualization and insights
• Participate in the day to day operations of the remote sensing team at Indigo, e.g., project planning, architecture and design discussions, stand ups, etc. 
• Present your work-in-progress and final results to the group

Academic requirements

Currently in at least your second year of study, enrolled in a Masters or PhD program, majoring or intending to major in a STEM field, including Remote Sensing, Computer Science, or Electrical and Computer Engineering. Formal coursework or competency in either Python, Java, C, C++ or other programming languages. Ability to showcase tech projects and participate in computer science-related extracurricular activities.

Qualifications

• Working on or completed an academic degree with a quantitative focus
• Experience using Python, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages for data analysis
• Experience with git or similar
• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, or imagery data (not required, but useful)
• Desire to work in a software and/or product development environment
• Experience with either AWS or Google Cloud (not required, but useful)
• Experience with relational databases, e.g., Snowflake, Postgres/PostGIS (not required, but useful)

Indigo is committed to living our values, specifically “creating a work environment where everyone feels respected, connected, and has opportunities to learn and grow.” As part of living our values, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels they can be themselves and has an equal opportunity of succeeding.