Software Engineer San Diego, CA In-person

ExploreTech Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

ExploreTech Inc. in San Diego seeks a senior software engineer to lead the transition from an early product to an enterprise-ready platform for mineral exploration.

You’ll build APIs, web apps for data storage, 2D mapping, and 3D data visualization, and mobile apps for remote sites, while scaling to global deployments. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and explorers, and travel to field sites in rugged environments to deliver high-performance compute workflows and AI-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Able to travel to remote parts of the US and world.

Responsibilities

• Develop web applications for data storage, 2D mapping, and 3D data visualization
• Develop mobile applications for use in remote locations
• Build data architectures, APIs, and workflows for interacting with mineral exploration data
• Build agentic AI systems that automate mineral exploration workflows
• Contribute to high-performance computing architectures to orchestrate hundreds of thousands of parallelized physics simulations
• Build systems for interacting with 3D AI geological models
• Perform user testing for UI/UX feedback
• Support mineral exploration teams during field campaigns

Skills

Software engineering

Travel willingness

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Job description

Our mission is to discover the raw materials needed to create a prosperous world for the next 1000 years.With modern software and hardware, we aim to reduce mineral discovery timelines from 10 years to 1 year.Founded in 2023 by lifelong geoscientists, ExploreTech is a venture-backed business that develops technology and uses it to explore for minerals all over the world.

About the Role

We’re accelerating the pace of mineral discovery.Our AI drill targeting software has gone 8 for 8 hitting mineralized targets compared to industry-standards of 1 in 10.We are now making the product bullet-proof for enterprise deployment so we can scale up mineral discovery at a global scale.In this role, you’ll lead the transition from an early product with traction into a product used by the biggest mining companies in the world to discover new minerals.

This is not a CRUD app – you’ll build software that’s used in rugged and remote parts of the world.You’ll build APIs to orchestrate massive cluster computing systems.You’ll build user interfaces that are so clean and usable that they work in an arctic snowstorm in January.The best part - you’ll join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and explorers that live and breathe this work every day.

What You’ll Do

• Develop web applications for data storage, 2D mapping, and 3D data visualization
• Develop mobile applications for use in remote locations
• Build data architectures, APIs, and workflows for interacting with mineral exploration data
• Build agentic AI systems that automate mineral exploration workflows
• Contribute to high-performance computing architectures to orchestrate hundreds of thousands of parallelized physics simulations
• Build systems for interacting with 3D AI geological models
• Perform user testing for UI/UX feedback
• Support mineral exploration teams during field campaigns

About You

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• Able to travel to remote parts of the US and world

Location

San Diego, California
Field deployments as needed

Starting at $150,000
+ equity