Senior Software Engineer, Scientific Computing
KoBold Metals2 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain foundational scientific-computing libraries for mineral-exploration analyses.
- Build tooling for Jupyter-based prototyping, experimentation, evaluation, simulation, scalable ML pipelines, and reproducible model organization.
- Collaborate with data scientists to build models predicting locations of economically valuable ore-metal concentrations.
- Apply and coach others on robust, testable, and composable software-engineering practices.
- Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists, and engineers to develop KoBold’s scientific-computing stack.
- Travel occasionally to exploration sites to assess products and help design technologies that improve mineral discovery.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer, data scientist, or ML engineer; the posting notes that many strong candidates will have closer to 10 years.
- A track record of building production-quality data-processing solutions or tooling that delivered business value.
- Proficiency with foundational statistical, traditional, and deep-learning concepts.
- Proficiency in Python, ideally including array-based packages such as xarray and NumPy.
- Deep experience working with measured scientific data and visualizing it for domain experts.
- Experience with MLOps and building robust machine-learning systems.
- Ability to work with novel mineral-exploration problems, complex geology domains, and limited, disparate, noisy data sources.
- Ability to take ownership of large projects, prioritize independently, communicate technical concepts to non-developers, and collaborate across data science, geoscience, engineering, and operations.
- Willingness to learn mineral exploration, work directly with geologists, and operate effectively in a dynamic early-stage company.
Benefits
- Full-time remote position open to candidates anywhere in the United States or Canada.
- Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.
- All employees travel to project sites, with a minimum of one week per year; this role is expected to travel approximately twice per year depending on project needs.
- The role offers hands-on exposure to mineral-exploration projects around the world.
Tech Stack
NumPyPython
Categories
About KoBold Metals
KoBold Metals develops AI-driven mineral exploration software and sensor systems and runs its own exploration programs to find copper, lithium, and other battery metals. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, combines data science with geoscience to guide drilling and asset decisions. It is backed by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BHP, Mitsubishi, T. Rowe Price, and CPP Investments.