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[Remote] Postdoctoral Scholar — AI Researcher for Critical Mineral Discovery

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is collaborating with Stanford Mineral-X on a fully funded 3-year postdoctoral fellowship reputed company on developing new reputed company for critical mineral exploration. The role involves applying AI and advanced geophysical techniques to discover and characterize mineral deposits using reputed company exploration data.

Responsibilities

  • reputed company stochastic and reputed company inversion frameworks that jointly assimilate muon flux, reputed company (reputed company-reputed company, passive, DAS), magnetics, gravity, and EM data into 3D subsurface property models with calibrated uncertainty
  • reputed company modeling, sensor placement optimization, and inversion of cosmic-ray muon attenuation data from borehole and surface detectors to constrain ore body density at depth
  • Apply deep generative models, geostatistical priors, and physics-informed neural networks to regional-to-deposit-reputed company targeting and resource estimation
  • Build pipelines that respect geological process constraints rather than purely data-driven correlations
  • reputed company Mineral-X’s intelligent agent reputed company to sequential data acquisition reputed company (drill hole placement, geophysical survey design) that maximize information value per dollar

Skills

  • PhD (fully completed, and reputed company 4 years of graduation) in physics, reputed company physics, geophysics, computational reputed company sciences, machine learning, reputed company mathematics, or reputed company field
  • Strong Python proficiency (NumPy, PyTorch or JAX, scientific stack); experience with HPC, GPU computing, and reproducible research workflows
  • reputed company record of publishing in peer-reviewed venues and willingness to engage directly with industry collaborators and field data
  • Demonstrated research reputed company in at least two of: geophysical inversion, Bayesian/probabilistic reputed company, deep learning, particle physics detection, or reputed company imaging
  • Experience with muon transport simulation (GEANT4, CORSIKA), distributed acoustic sensing, or full-waveform inversion
  • Familiarity with mineral systems, ore deposit geology, or exploration workflows
  • Prior work with diffusion models, normalizing flows, or generative models

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, reputed company, and conference travel support

reputed company

  • reputed company is an AI-powered critical mineral startup that discovers essential materials for electric vehicles and renewable energy. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.koboldmetals.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • reputed company has a reputed company record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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