Agronomist

Job Description PN: Please read the requirements carefully. Taking the pre-screening assessment (on the job posting on our website — if your job portal isn't showing it) is mandatory to be considered. Please do not apply if you are looking for remote / WFH, or are not willing to be deputed at client sites across India for extended periods (6–12 months or longer). Visiting Agronomist Job Description City Greens is a fast-growing AgriTech startup building automation and AI-driven solutions for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). We work with modern farms, growers, and institutions to help them improve productivity, efficiency, and sustainability through technology. We are looking for a Visiting Agronomist to be the on-ground technical backbone of our client farms. You will be on the CityGreens payroll and deputed at a client site , owning crop performance day to day, backed by our senior agronomy team. This is a career-building, pan-India role. Each deputation typically runs 6 to 12 months or longer , and over the next 2–5 years you will gain exposure to different technologies, crops, and client sites across the country. You will begin with a 4 to 8 week training program at our AgriTech facility in Ahmedabad , on CityGreens' crops, systems, and protocols, before your first deputation. As a Visiting Agronomist, You Will: - Look after crop health and agronomy day to day at your deputed client farm - Conduct crop health assessments, troubleshooting, and intervention planning - Execute the crop plan and agronomy protocols set by the CityGreens senior team, and escalate technical decisions to them - Train and upskill client farm teams on CEA crop management best practices - Feed field learnings back into CityGreens' internal agronomy and tech systems - Work with farm management software, IoT/sensor data, and yield/input tracking Requirements - Minimum 1 year of hands-on agronomy experience in the field - Working knowledge of one or more of: protected cultivation (polyhouse/greenhouse), hydroponics or aeroponics, high-value horticulture - Diagnostic ability — identifying and resolving crop health, nutrition, and environmental issues in controlled-environment settings - Comfortable working with data — farm management software, IoT/sensor outputs, yield and input tracking - Willingness to be deputed and relocate to client sites across India for extended periods (6–12 months or longer) — non-negotiable - Willing to attend the initial 4–8 week training in Ahmedabad Benefits - Salary by experience band: - 1 year+ : ₹30,000 – ₹35,000/month - 2 years+ : ₹35,000 – ₹40,000/month - 3 years+ : ₹40,000 – ₹50,000/month - 4 years+ : ₹50,000 – ₹60,000/month - 5 years+ : ₹60,000+/month - PF - Health Insurance coverage - Company-provided accommodation at the deputed client site - Structured training and continuous support from CityGreens' senior agronomy team - Pan-India exposure to India's most innovative CEA farms, across diverse geographies, crop systems, and technologies - A high-impact role in a fast-growing AgriTech team check(event) ; career-website-detail-template-2 => apply(record.id,meta)" mousedown="lyte-button => check(event)" final-style="background-color:#6875E2;border-color:#6875E2;color:white;" final-class="lyte-button lyteBackgroundColorBtn lyteSuccess" lyte-rendered="">