Agricultural Research Service careers
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Around 2,000 scientists and postdocs, backed by 5,000 other employees, work across the Agricultural Research Service's 95 research locations, running some 600 projects within 15 national programs on a budget of about $1.7 billion a year. ARS is the Department of Agriculture's chief scientific in-house research agency, and its stated aim is finding solutions to agricultural problems that affect Americans every day, from field to table. The scientist-to-support ratio in those numbers is the practical takeaway: most of the agency's jobs exist to keep the science running.
Research at this scale carries support hiring with it, and ARS locations staff laboratory, technical, and safety roles alongside the scientists themselves.