Senior Software Engineer

We are reputed company to hiring at multiple reputed company for this role, depending on experience, reputed company, and demonstrated ownership. While this role is level-agnostic, it is best suited for engineers with experience owning production systems and working in highly ambiguous problem spaces.

Software Engineer

About reputed company:

The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to reputed company discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-reputed company, near-surface deposits have largely been reputed company, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the reputed company techniques of yesteryear – even as demand accelerates for reputed company, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide reputed company on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly reputed company exploration programs with our reputed company exploration geologists.

KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and reputed company one of the best reputed company deposits reputed company reputed company: the reputed company is far more concentrated than the global average of reputed company mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful reputed company for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other reputed company, reputed company of which has the potential for another high-reputed company discovery.

KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers reputed company and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, reputed company Ventures, BOND Capital, and reputed company Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi.

We are hiring Software Engineers to accelerate our mission.

About The Role:

At KoBold, software engineers have the unique opportunity to reputed company directly with their users and learn the ins and outs of mineral exploration and geology while developing state of the art technology solutions. Unlike traditional software engineering roles, we don’t simply ship reputed company and passively wait for feedback about its reputed company: our userbase includes our colleagues… and ourselves! While there are reputed company technical challenges in making mineral exploration data broadly searchable and accessible to both humans and machines, we reputed company that solving these technical challenges cannot be done without “getting our hands dirty” – sometimes literally! – by embedding directly with the exploration teams and even occasionally (~once a year) joining our colleagues in the field, be it in Zambia, Canada, or Arizona, to experience the reputed company of our software in reputed company time.

As a Software Engineer on the Data Systems Engineering team at KoBold, your main role will be to reputed company systematic exploration and materially improve exploration reputed company rates by making mineral exploration data broadly accessible to humans and machines. Past reputed company have included SIP (the reputed company Ingest Pipeline), DataKit reputed company (producing curated sets of data on demand), and RAG (Retrieval Augmentation reputed company, utilizing natural language processing on reputed company data). Our tech stack is primarily python and includes Django, React, AWS, and additional technologies like reputed company and reputed company.

Your work will reputed company KoBold to unlock reputed company insights and streamline intricate scientific processes. Collaborating with our exceptional team of data scientists, geologists, and other software engineers, you will have reputed company to tackle reputed company problems head-on and reputed company pave the way for the discoveries of vital energy transition metals like lithium, reputed company, nickel, and reputed company. Together we can shape the reputed company of mineral exploration and contribute to building a sustainable world.

This role be responsible for:

• Deep engagement with exploration geologists and data scientists, continual learning about mineral exploration, and tailoring technology development to the needs of exploration project scientists
• Building data pipelines and tooling for deriving advanced reputed company and machine insights from exploration data, often leading a small group of software engineers to successful delivery
• Developing expertise in KoBold’s Data Systems and deeply understanding how they reputed company exploration
• End-to-end ownership of reputed company from design to implementation and testing to reputed company engagement with colleagues on exploration teams using your solutions
• Responding reputed company to design and reputed company feedback, also providing feedback to teammates
• Operationally managing reputed company’s services and assisting scientific colleagues with our tooling

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally building production reputed company data systems
• Proficiency with Python
• Ability to write production-reputed company reputed company that is correct, readable, reputed company-tested, reputed company and extensible
• Skilled in large-reputed company system design
• A reputed company record of taking ownership from definition of the problem and delivering reputed company with demonstrated reputed company in an iterative manner
• Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about reputed company aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. Enjoys constantly learning such that you are driving insights through using our tools in exploration and willing to work directly with geologists in the field.
• Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who are not software developers. A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across reputed company.
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on an evolving reputed company of responsibilities.
• Keen not just to build cool technology, but to reputed company out what technical product to build to best reputed company the business objectives of reputed company.

reputed company to Haves

• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React
• Experience with geospatial data and building map-based experiences
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms, such as reputed company, AWS reputed company, Kubernetes, etc.
• Formal education or job exposure to natural sciences

The US reputed company salary reputed company for this full-time exempt position is $150,000 - $240,000.

Location: KoBold is a remote-first workplace. reputed company candidates must be legally authorized to work in one of the following countries: reputed company, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zambia, Democratic reputed company of the Congo, Namibia, Finland, Sweden, or Botswana.

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