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You will contribute to diverse and challenging projects, derive and communicate meaningful insights to business partners, and develop and deploy automated solutions to create business value across a variety of domains.\nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other highly skilled data scientists, mentor junior team members, play a creative role on project teams, participate in high priority cross-functional initiatives, and grow and develop your own skillset through your work. Your curiosity, expertise and integrity will be instrumental in representing our team in engagements with our partners and stakeholders across the company, and in advancing Simplot’s utilization and development of industry-leading innovations in advanced analytics and AI.\nKey Responsibilities\nParticipate as a member of a data science team. 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