Senior Decision Science Engineer (Remote)

KoBold Metals; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

KoBold Metals is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Decision Science, to advance a modern scientific computing stack for mineral exploration. This remote role supports a fast-growing team of data scientists, software engineers, and geologists, delivering scalable decision systems for high-speed, high-quality exploration decisions.

The role emphasizes building production-grade tooling, ML-powered pipelines, and collaboration across disciplines, with occasional field travel and a US-based remote

Qualifications

• 5+ years in decision science with a software focus.
• Proven ability to build production data processing tools.
• Strong foundation in ML including traditional and deep learning methods.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain decision science libraries for KoBold analyses.
• Build tooling to accelerate decision making; prototyping in Jupyter notebooks; scalable pipelines; organize ML outputs.
• Apply engineering best practices such as robust, testable, and composable code.
• Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists and engineers to advance decision science tech for mineral exploration.
• Occasional travel to exploration sites; travel about twice per year depending on project needs.

Skills

Decision science

Python

ML concepts

xarray

numpy

MLops

Data visualization

Production data

Tools

Jupyter notebooks

Job description

KoBold Metals is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Decision Science, to advance a modern scientific computing stack for mineral exploration. This remote role supports a fast-growing team of data scientists, software engineers, and geologists, delivering scalable decision systems for high-speed, high-quality exploration decisions.

The role emphasizes building production-grade tooling, ML-powered pipelines, and collaboration across disciplines, with occasional field travel and a US-based remote