Director of Platform Engineering — Enterprise Mining AI

ExploreTech Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ExploreTech Inc. in San Diego, CA, is seeking a senior lead engineer to set the technical direction for an engineering team building an enterprise-grade AI drill-targeting platform.

You will architect the platform across web, mobile, data, and compute, and guide the team through scaling at global scale. You’ll design high-performance computing systems for massive parallel simulations and lead the development of agentic AI workflows that automate mineral exploration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years in leadership or architecture at scale.
• Fluent in Python, Go, and JavaScript (or similar languages).
• Deep experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Able to travel to remote parts of the US and world.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the platform across web, mobile, data, and compute.
• Set the technical direction for the engineering team, and mentor and grow it as we scale.
• Design high-performance computing architectures to orchestrate hundreds of thousands of parallelized physics simulations.
• Lead development of agentic AI systems that automate mineral exploration workflows.
• Build the systems that connect 3D AI geological models to the people who use them.
• Make the product enterprise-ready: security, reliability, observability, deployment.
• Work directly with scientists, geologists, and customers to turn field problems into roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Python

Go

JavaScript

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's in computer science

Job description

ExploreTech Inc. in San Diego, CA, is seeking a senior lead engineer to set the technical direction for an engineering team building an enterprise-grade AI drill-targeting platform.

You will architect the platform across web, mobile, data, and compute, and guide the team through scaling at global scale. You’ll design high-performance computing systems for massive parallel simulations and lead the development of agentic AI workflows that automate mineral exploration.