Senior Applied Scientist — Mineral Exploration & Sensor Tech

KoBold Metals; Berkeley (CA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

KoBold Metals is seeking a highly skilled researcher to design and deploy state-of-the-art mineral exploration instruments and data systems. You will simulate, calibrate, and deploy sensors in field settings, building predictive models for ore-grade mineralization in 2D and 3D.

You will work with data scientists, geoscientists, and engineers to advance geophysical data collection and uncertainty quantification, delivering tools that accelerate discovery of critical battery metals.

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying mineral exploration instruments.
• Ability to curate diverse geoscience data into unified systems.
• Proven track record with cross-disciplinary teams and vendors.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills in physics-based methods.
• Experience deploying sensors in the field.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy new mineral exploration data collection instruments and methods.
• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software exploration tools.
• Find and curate a wide variety of geospectral, geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data and integrate it into KoBold’s proprietary data system.
• Build models to make statistically valid predictions about locations of anomalies.
• Create visualizations for model evaluation and data interaction.
• Develop and apply data processing, and physics-based techniques to geoscientific data.
• Present to and collaborate with external partners and stakeholders.
• Push the state of the art in analysis capabilities with spatial clustering and anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists and engineers to deploy algorithms for exploration.

Skills

Sensor development

Geoscience data analysis

Python data science

Geophysical methods

Machine learning in geology

Data visualization

SQL / databases

Cloud computing

Field sensor deployment

Team collaboration

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

KoBold Metals is seeking a highly skilled researcher to design and deploy state-of-the-art mineral exploration instruments and data systems. You will simulate, calibrate, and deploy sensors in field settings, building predictive models for ore-grade mineralization in 2D and 3D.

You will work with data scientists, geoscientists, and engineers to advance geophysical data collection and uncertainty quantification, delivering tools that accelerate discovery of critical battery metals.