Staff Applied Scientist: Exploration AI & Sensors

KoBold Metals; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KoBold Metals is seeking an engineer/scientist to develop state‑of‑the‑art instruments for data collection to guide exploration programs. You will simulate, characterize, and calibrate sensor performance and deploy data acquisition systems in the field.

Joining a team of data scientists and geoscientists, you will build models and software to accelerate discoveries of critical battery metals, while integrating uncertainty quantification across 2D and 3D predictions and partnering with vendors

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to quickly absorb and synthesize complex information, with a track record of high intellectual rigor in a professional setting.
• Exceptional curiosity and eagerness to learn, with a proactive approach to exploring new concepts and technologies.
• A successful track record of developing complex equipment with cross-disciplinary teams and vendors.

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 the locations of compositional anomalies within the Earth’s crust.
• Create effective visualizations for evaluating model performance and enabling rapid interaction with the underlying data and key features.
• Develop and apply a range of data processing, statistical, and physics-based techniques to geoscientific data — from computer vision to geophysical inversions — and use the results to guide our targeting efforts and inform our acquisition and exploration decisions.
• Present to and collaborate with our external partners and stakeholders.
• Push the state of the art in analysis capabilities by implementing statistically rigorous spatially aware clustering, anomaly detection, and other analysis methods.
• Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists and engineers to invent and deploy algorithms that combine large and complex data sets for mineral exploration and discoveries

Skills

Sensor data analysis

Geophysical data

Python data science

Machine learning

Data acquisition

Geology domain knowledge

Systems integration

Cloud computing

SQL

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

KoBold Metals is seeking an engineer/scientist to develop state‑of‑the‑art instruments for data collection to guide exploration programs. You will simulate, characterize, and calibrate sensor performance and deploy data acquisition systems in the field.

Joining a team of data scientists and geoscientists, you will build models and software to accelerate discoveries of critical battery metals, while integrating uncertainty quantification across 2D and 3D predictions and partnering with vendors