Career Opportunities 

Director of Data Science & Digital Exploration

About the company

KoBold Metals is pioneering Digital Exploration— the application of statistical modeling, big data aggregation, and basic science to materially improve the pace and efficacy of natural resources exploration. We are building and using our proprietary tools specifically to explore for new sources of cobalt, a metal that is necessary for making safe, durable, fast-charging, high-capacity lithium-ion batteries. As electric vehicles (EVs) become widespread, many new cobalt mines will be needed, and the discovery of new cobalt deposits will partially limit the pace of EV adoption. The incumbent cobalt supply is challenged with severe labor and ethical issues, so KoBold’s objective is to help enable the EV revolution by finding many new sources of ethical cobalt from reliable jurisdictions. We will achieve that objective by building the world’s most scientifically sophisticated and data-focused cobalt exploration company.

About the position

The Director of Data Science & Digital Exploration will lead the development of software to accelerate discovery of new supplies of cobalt and oversee the construction of a proprietary worldwide dataset that underlies our digital program. As the leader of KoBold’s digital exploration team, you will work closely with KoBold’s team of world-renowned geochemists, geophysicists, and geologists, who have a long track record of making major discoveries. Your role is to be the interface between our physical scientists and our software developers and to build tools that help KoBold solve challenging scientific problems and help enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.

Responsibilities

The Director of Data Science & Digital Exploration will lead the team responsible for:

• Aggregating and curating geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geographic data from around the world
• Integrating the data into a well-structured proprietary database
• Building algorithms to formalize geophysical and geochemical theories of cobalt ore formation and rigorously incorporating new observational, statistical, and experimental insights as systematic search criteria
• Refining the algorithms based on feedback from the exploration team
• Developing interactive tools for mapping areas that are prospective for discovery
• Creating statistical association and machine learning models for predicting mineral occurrences and prospectivity
• Supporting the exploration team with various geospatial, statistical, and other scientific analyses

Qualifications

A great Director of Data Science and Digital Exploration candidate will have:

• A Ph.D. in the physical sciences, engineering, or mathematics
• 5+ years relevant work experience
• Proficiency in SQL and python
• Experience creating/managing large databases with diverse data types
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to interact with technical experts in different disciplines and intellectual curiosity to rapidly acquire scientific knowledge in new areas

The Director of Data Science and Digital Exploration will lead a technical team that will include at least 3 additional engineers/analysts . KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals has an office in Palo Alto but has many employees working remotely and is happy to consider applicants in any location.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com.

Software Engineer

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help develop software that accelerates discovery of new supplies of cobalt, and you will help build a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our digital exploration program. As part of KoBold’s digital exploration team, you will work closely with both KoBold’s team of world-renowned geoscientists and our data team. Ultimately, your role is to help build technology to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the first members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Software Engineer will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software called Machine Prospector™
• Design aspects of the data system to store and quickly process and access a wide variety of geoscience data
• Integrate geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary database
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Work with data scientists to implement and improve algorithms and machine learning models
• Develop interactive visualizations to enable the data team and geoscience teams to rapidly view and interrogate the model results and underlying data

Qualifications

A great Software Engineer candidate will have:

• Proficiency in Python
• A technical stack that includes most or all of: Python, Postgres/PostGIS, Elasticsearch, AWS, GIS, Tensorflow, git, non-relational databases
• A range of experience including any or all of: distributed computing, algorithms, and creating/managing large databases and pipelines
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant full-time professional work experience in the private sector, writing code in a production environment
• The ability to work well with technical experts who aren’t software people and to effectively communicate engineering, concepts, requirements, and processes to non-engineers
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities
• Enjoyment in getting the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Experience working with data originating from physical measurements, including analysis of measurement error
• Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
• Experience with planning and implementing information security measures
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals has an office in Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com.

Senior Associate – Business Development

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

The Senior Associate will lead KoBold’s commercial evaluation of potential asset transactions and conduct economic analyses to inform KoBold’s exploration strategy. As KoBold is currently building its portfolio, the Senior Associate will support originating, negotiating, and especially underwriting asset acquisitions. The Senior Associate will provide critical input into the company strategy and work closely with the geology team in evaluating potential projects.

The Senior Associate will develop a view of the global market for battery materials. This position will require developing a comprehensive view of development-stage opportunities, establishing KoBold’s presence and credibility in the A&D market, aggressively prioritizing opportunities according to KoBold’s strategy, and doing economic analyses to rapidly screen potential projects and to inform KoBold’s exploration strategy. The Senior Associate will be deeply involved in all transactions and will be individually responsible for conducting a rigorous evaluation of the potential economics and risks.

Responsibilities

The Senior Associate will:

• Create a comprehensive global view of the battery materials supply market and generate potential opportunities
• Speak with potential counterparties and effectively screen opportunities according to KoBold’s strategy and transactability
• Develop economic models for different styles of deposits and use economic analyses to inform our global exploration strategy
• Conduct commercial due diligence on potential acquisitions, including financial modeling, considerations of land tenure, regulatory matters, and other above-ground risks
• Individually build and maintain very detailed economic models of potential projects
• Support deal structuring and negotiation and help drive transactions to completion
• Partner with the geologic team to acquire new mineral titles on greenfield opportunities from the relevant ministerial authorities

Qualifications

A great Senior Associate candidate will have:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience at an exploration, development, or operating company; as a principal investor; or in relevant professional services (e.g., engineering/geoscience/consulting/finance). Professional experience must be in natural resources, but may be either in metals & mining or in oil & gas
• Experience evaluating the economics/commercial potential of ore-deposit developments
• A high standard of rigor in due diligence and enjoyment in getting the details right
• Experience with corporate or asset transactions
• The ability to work with technical experts
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity
• Prior work in engineering or geoscience, or a degree in a physical science, mathematics, or engineering discipline

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Professional experience as a mining engineer, metallurgist/processing engineer, or geologist, whether for an operating company, investor, or professional service firm
• Experience with the python programming language
• Fluency in one or more relevant foreign languages

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Vancouver, BC is preferred. Partial remote work is a possibility; locations with significant mining deal flow would be given greater consideration. Must be able to travel internationally.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com.

Geoscience Data Analyst

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will help build a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. You will be a core part of the data science team, and your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Geoscience Data Analyst will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software called Machine Prospector™
• Aggregate geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world
• Analyze the data to identify potential measurement errors, missing data, inconsistencies with other datasets
• Integrate the data into a well-structured, curated, proprietary database
• Find insights in unstructured data and work with the engineering team to ingest and extract key features from these datasets
• Work with the data science team to build predictive models for finding ore deposits
• Support the data and exploration teams with ad hoc geospatial analyses

Qualifications

A great Geoscience Data Analyst candidate will have:

• Experience with Python and SQL
• Experience working with geospatial data
• Experience with geospatial visualization tools, including GIS
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in geology, or a degree in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics with significant coursework in geoscience and familiarity with statistical fundamentals
• Enjoyment in getting the details right

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals has offices in Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com. Applicants with less than three years of postgraduate full-time work experience should also include a transcript or course record.

Project Development Analyst

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

The Analyst will conduct KoBold’s economic analysis of project opportunities and transactions, and will help frame development and ore processing options for target assets. As KoBold builds its portfolio, the Analyst will support originating and underwriting asset acquisitions, which will include appropriately characterizing future development options.

The Analyst will be deeply involved in all KoBold transactions and will be individually responsible for rigorous analysis of economics and potential risks. This position will require developing a comprehensive view of development-stage opportunities, aggressively prioritizing opportunities according to KoBold’s strategy, and conducting economic analyses to rapidly screen potential projects.

Responsibilities

The Project Development Analyst will:

• Develop economic models for different styles of mines and mineral deposits in varying jurisdictions that underpin our commercial activity and economically inform our exploration and development strategy
• Build and maintain detailed economic models of potential projects
• Knowledgeably engage in and contribute to discussions with engineering and geoscience staff on project development options and plans
• Assist due diligence on potential acquisitions, including financial modeling, consideration of land tenure, regulatory matters, and other above-ground risks
• Speak with potential counterparties and effectively screen opportunities according to KoBold’s strategy and transactability

Qualifications

A great Project Development Analyst candidate will have:

• Demonstrated ability to independently structure engineering and economic assessments, build requisite models, complete analysis, and effectively communicate results and conclusions to stakeholders and decision-makers
• A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a metals & mining exploration, development, or operating company; or in allied professional services (e.g., engineering/consulting) in roles including mining engineer, metallurgist/processing engineer, or project development engineer
• Experience in evaluating the economics/commercial potential of ore-deposit developments
• An academic degree in an engineering, mathematics, or physical science discipline
• A high standard of analytical rigor and enjoyment in getting the details right
• The ability to work with technical subject matter experts
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Experience with the Python programming language
• Fluency in one or more relevant foreign languages
• A companion academic degree in business or economics

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Preferred locations are Vancouver, BC or Berkeley, CA, where KoBold has offices. Remote work can be considered. Must be able to travel internationally.

Interested applicants should contact Jeff Jurinak, jeff.jurinak@koboldmetals.com.

Machine Learning Engineer

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will help build a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Machine Learning Engineer will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software called Machine Prospector™
• Integrate a wide variety of geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary database
• Develop tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Create machine learning models to predict the locations of mineral ore deposits
• Implement and refine algorithms and systems for building predictive models on large and diverse datasets
• Create effective visualizations for evaluating model performance and enabling rapid interaction with the underlying data and key features

Qualifications

A great Machine Learning Engineer candidate will have:

• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• A technical stack that includes most or all of: Python, Postgres/PostGIS, Elasticsearch, AWS, GIS, Tensorflow, git
• Experience building a wide variety of machine learning models and applying them to different problems
• Excellent skills at designing data structures and efficiently implementing algorithms
• Experience working with data originating from physical measurements, including analysis of measurement error
• Interest and ability to find and apply the best and most appropriate tools from technical literature or elsewhere
• At least 3 years of relevant full-time professional work experience in the private sector, writing code in a production environment
• The ability to work well with technical experts who aren’t software people
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities
• Enjoyment in getting the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Experience with geospatial analyses and visualizations
• Experience creating machine learning models on geospatial data
• Experience setting up distributed computing systems and deploying models on them
• Experience in image processing or computer vision
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals has an office in Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should contact jobs@koboldmetals.com.

Senior Geologist

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will lead evaluations of potential properties for acquisition, generate targets, and design and oversee field programs from target definition through to resource expansion. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will work closely with data scientists, using KoBold’s technology to help guide our field programs and decision-making. You will also work directly with our senior technical advisors and with the executive team on making the investment case for acquisitions and field programs.

Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries by identifying opportunities with rigorous evaluation and by ensuring that we safely and effectively conduct our field programs.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate in all activities a commitment to the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations
• Rigorously analyze geoscientific datasets across a range of scales from provinces to prospects to determine exploration potential and to identify, rank, and prioritize exploration targets
• Design, budget, permit, and execute field programs ranging from geological mapping and sampling of grass roots prospects through to large drilling programs on advanced projects, with leading industry practice in data acquisition and validation
• Provide technical guidance and support to local in-country project teams during the design and execution of exploration programs, including site visits and engagement with other project stakeholders (e.g., community representatives, regulatory authorities, and joint venture partners)
• Work collaboratively with data scientist colleagues to conceive and implement insightful analytical methods

Qualifications

A great Senior Geologist candidate will have:

• Strong technical knowledge of one or more ore deposit types. Experience working on sediment-hosted stratiform copper or magmatic sulfide deposits will be considered an advantage
• Excellence in generative analysis ranging from new concepts to integration, interpretation, and modeling of large datasets
• Good field skills and experience conducting field programs across a range of project stages from grassroots prospects through to advanced projects with significant drilling campaigns
• Baseline level of proficiency in standard desktop software packages (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS)
• Strong leadership skills including the ability to motivate and inspire others, to share ownership and responsibility for project outcomes, and to work effectively in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
• Previous experience in coaching and training geoscientists of varying experience, educational backgrounds and cultures in leading-practice mineral exploration
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace
• A minimum of 10 years experience in the mineral exploration industry
• B.Sc. degree in geology or related geoscience field

It is helpful but not required to have:

• A Ph.D. or M.Sc. degree
• Working knowledge of one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, R, C/C++)
• Knowledge of geostatistics and/or other statistical methods relevant for analysis of geoscientific data
• International experience, particularly in the Central African Copperbelt

Note: Candidates who are specialists in geochemistry or geophysics but open to doing significant project work are encouraged to apply.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Open to remote, preferably in the US, Canada or Zambia. KoBold Metals has offices in Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Scientific Software Engineer

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals and build the global geoscience data system that underpins our machine learning models. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Scientific Software Engineer will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software called Machine Prospector™
• Design components of the data system to store and to quickly process and access a wide variety of geoscience data
• Integrate physical, chemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary database
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Work with data scientists to implement and improve algorithms and predictive models
• Develop interactive visualizations to enable the data team and geoscience teams to rapidly view and interrogate the model results and underlying data

Qualifications

A great Scientific Software Engineer candidate will have:

• Training in the physical sciences, with knowledge including physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, geology, materials science, and/or related engineering fields
• Substantial experience using computational methods for solving problems, ideally with physical science data
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, C++, MATLAB, or FORTRAN
• The ability to work well with technical experts who aren’t software people and to effectively communicate engineering concepts, requirements, and processes to non-engineers
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities
• Enjoyment in getting the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• An advanced degree and/or research experience in experimental physical sciences
• Professional experience in the private sector writing code in a production environment
• Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
• Proficiency in Python
• A technical stack that includes PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Elasticsearch, AWS, GIS, Tensorflow, and/or git
• Experience creating/managing large databases and pipelines

Please note, this is role is primarily dedicated to building software tools to enable a wide range of analyses and models. Candidates who are interested mainly in analyzing datasets and building models are encouraged to apply instead for the Data Scientist and Geoscience Data Analyst positions.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals is based in Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com.

Staff Engineer / Architect

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will design and develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will architect and construct the global geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Staff Engineer / Architect will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software called Machine Prospector™
• Design components of the data system to store and quickly process and access a wide variety of geoscience data
• Integrate geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary database
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Select or design algorithms to improve performance of predictive models
• Design and implement infrastructure for distributed parallel computation
• Design, implement, and maintain security protocols for highly proprietary data
• Develop interactive visualizations to enable the data team and geoscience teams to rapidly view and interrogate the model results and underlying data

Qualifications

A great candidate will have:

• • Experience designing and developing complex data systems that integrate disparate types of fragmentary data
  • Experience building systems to work with data generated from physical measurements and familiarity with statistics used in analysis of scientific data, including measurement error
  • Experience building systems to develop and deploy machine learning models and familiarity with the statistics underpinning these models
  • Experience creating/managing large databases and pipelines
  • Prior responsibility for planning and implementing information security measures
  • Expertise in Python, and a tech stack that includes Postgres/PostGIS, Elasticsearch, AWS, GIS, Tensorflow, non-relational databases, git
  • Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
  • A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics (an advanced degree and/or significant research experience are a definite plus)
  • 10+ years of relevant full-time professional work experience in the private sector
  • A great track record as a mentor and coach to early-career engineers and colleagues in other technical disciplines (e.g., data science)
  • The ability to work well with technical experts who aren’t software people and the ability to effectively communicate engineering, concepts, requirements, and processes to non-engineers
  • Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities
  • Enjoyment in getting the details right

It is expected that the Staff Engineer / Architect may have direct reports and will have substantial technical supervisory responsibilities; however, this role — like all roles at KoBold — is primarily a technical contributor not a manager.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals has an office in Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should contact jobs@koboldmetals.com.

Computational Scientist

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals and build the global geoscience data system that underpins our machine learning models. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Computational Scientist will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software called Machine Prospector™
• Design components of the data system to store and to quickly process and access a wide variety of geoscience data
• Integrate physical, chemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary database
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Work with data scientists to implement and improve algorithms and predictive models
• Develop interactive visualizations to enable the data team and geoscience teams to rapidly view and interrogate the model results and underlying data

Qualifications

A great Computational Scientist candidate will have:

• Training in the physical sciences, with knowledge including physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, geology, materials science, and/or related engineering fields
• Substantial experience using computational methods for solving problems, ideally with physical science data
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, C++, MATLAB, or FORTRAN
• The ability to work well with technical experts who aren’t software people and to effectively communicate engineering concepts, requirements, and processes to non-engineers
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities
• Enjoyment in getting the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• An advanced degree and/or research experience in experimental physical sciences
• Professional experience in the private sector writing code in a production environment
• Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
• Proficiency in Python
• A technical stack that includes PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Elasticsearch, AWS, GIS, Tensorflow, and/or git
• Experience creating/managing large databases and pipelines

Please note, this is role is primarily dedicated to building software tools to enable a wide range of analyses and models. Candidates who are interested mainly in analyzing datasets and building models are encouraged to apply instead for the Data Scientist and Geoscience Data Analyst positions.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals has offices in Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com.

Director of Corporate Development

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and integrates vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of compositional anomalies and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – incorporate this value-of-information framework to guide our decisions of where to acquire land and what field data to collect, from geochemical sampling to airborne surveys to drilling campaigns.

As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers. We are building a portfolio of assets, and we will monetize those assets after increasing the value through discovery and definition of resources and reserves.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

The Director of Corporate Development (DCD) will report directly to the CEO and work on the most important activities informing corporate strategy, finance, and business development.

You will lead economic evaluation of global battery-metal markets, competitor analysis, assessment of jurisdictional and geopolitical risk, and techno-economic analyses of new technologies. You will be responsible for KoBold’s financial scenario planning, which will inform everything from financing strategy to resource planning and allocation. You will also work with the CEO on communications with the Board of Directors, counterparties, investors, and partners.

Further, to implement our strategy, you will establish yourself at the center of global deal flow for battery metals. You will develop a comprehensive view of resource projects around the world, identify the highest-priority opportunities and initiate transactions, and will help lead negotiation of new data-sharing partnerships as well as joint-venture project development deals.

Responsibilities

The Director of Corporate Development will be responsible for:

• Aggregating existing and conducting original market analyses on the economics of battery materials
• Owning the corporate planning model that will inform corporate finance, resource planning, and project development
• Working with the CEO to prepare materials for the Board of Directors as well for other investors or partners
• Developing a global view of battery metals opportunities and using economic analyses to inform our global exploration strategy
• Generating deal flow of potential projects and effectively screening opportunities according to KoBold’s strategy
• Developing detailed assessments of potential acquisitions, including economic modeling and considerations of land tenure, regulatory matters, and other above-ground risks
• Negotiating commercial terms with counterparties and leading transactions through completion

Once KoBold has a mature portfolio, the DCD is expected to take on significant roles in establishing offtake agreements and identifying potential asset buyers.

Qualifications

A great Director of Corporate Development candidate will have:

• Minimum 4+ years work experience at a startup, investment firm, or top professional services firm
• Expertise in building financial models
• A high standard of rigor in due diligence and enjoyment in getting the details right
• Experience with and/or strong intuition for global market dynamics
• Track record of working with technical experts
• BA/BS in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, or economics (advanced degree will be a plus)
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Experience with the Python programming language
• Experience at a natural resource exploration, development, and/or operating company (metals & mining or oil & gas)
• Experience with corporate or asset transactions

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: KoBold Metals is based in Berkeley, CA; partial remote work is an option.

Interested applicants should submit CVs to info@koboldmetals.com.

Post-doc position: Applying Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Energy Future

Principal Investigator

Jef Caers, Professor of Geological Sciences, Stanford University

Director, Stanford Center for Earth Resource Forecasting

Postdoctoral position, Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Energy Future

Sponsoring Company

KoBold Metals

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a 2-year position to research the application of artificial intelligence for the exploration of critical battery metals. The candidate will collaborate directly with KoBold Metals (KoBold), a San Francisco Bay Area company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Andreseen Horowitz that is developing artificial intelligence to improve the efficacy, efficiency, and sustainability of critical mineral exploration and development.

The project will focus on sequential decision making under uncertainty using the latest research in intelligent systems and agents as well as predictive modeling based on uncertainty quantification with sparse and fuzzy data. This research requires a disciplinary background in computer science, data science, statistics, and/or mathematics; a background in geosciences is not necessary. The candidate will also need experience with databases and Python scripting. We are looking for candidates with:

• • Demonstrated computer science expertise in artificial intelligence, data science programming, big data manipulation, and cloud computing
  • Having worked on real data with quantified uncertainty
  • Research as demonstrated through publications in scientific journals

Summary of research project

Battery metals are to the renewable energy and electric vehicle revolutions what iron was to the iron-age and what coal was to the industrial revolution. As electric vehicles and renewable electricity become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. In collaboration with the Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecasting, KoBold is building AI systems to find new deposits rich in critical battery materials by combining the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers.

Scientific discovery works through a series of experiments with Bayesian updating. In this manner, mineral exploration requires careful planning of sequential data acquisition over large areas to fill in sparse datasets. This project will develop an artificial intelligent agent termed the Intelligent Prospector that assists humans in the optimal planning of geophysical and geochemical data acquisitions campaigns. The intelligent agent will interact with KoBold’s Machine Prospector® technology, developed to provide quantified uncertainty from existing data sets. We envision the Intelligent Prospector will use the latest developments in AI such as Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes, Reinforcement Learning, and Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods to accelerate discovery and thereby reach the ultimate goal of a battery-powered sustainable energy future.

Send a CV, statement and a list of three referees to jcaers@stanford.edu.

In your statement, please elaborate explicitly on the following questions:

• What expertise in AI do you have that can contribute to developing intelligent systems?
• What is your level of python programming as provided through examples?
• What are real data cases and problems that you have worked on?

Because of COVID-19, we can only consider those applicants who reside in the United States.

Geology Data Analyst (temporary, part time consultant)

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning, and other scientific computing techniques, to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. As electric vehicles become widespread, many new mines will be needed; but before new deposits can be mined, they have to be discovered. Our objective is to find new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials.

About the project

For this project, you will process unstructured data to help build a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our digital exploration program. You will support KoBold’s data scientists to locate, digitize, tabulate, georeference, and discover valuable geologic data. You will use your knowledge of earth science to properly categorize and extract geologic data into structured text and geospatial file formats.

This is a temporary, hourly contract position with a pay rate starting at $20/hr. This position is fully remote, although availability to travel to KoBold’s Berkeley office is a plus. We require a minimum availability of 15 hours per week, however this can be increased if the contractor has the availability/bandwidth.

Commitment and Requirements

• Have availability to work at least 15 hours a week, check-in with the project team daily (via Slack), and attend check-in meetings (over Zoom) twice a week.
• Access to a personal computer that can simultaneously run QGIS and Zoom, as well as process large amounts of data.

Responsibilities

The Geology Data Analyst will:

• Work on a project-by-project basis to digitize geologic features into vector datasets, and georeference map images using QGIS.
• Deliver high-quality geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data tabulated from assessment reports and maps.
• Responsible for quality control over your work outputs using third party and proprietary tools.

Qualifications

A great Geology Data Analyst will have:

• A bachelor’s degree (or in-progress degree) in an Earth Science field (geology, earth science, geophysics, geochemistry, etc.).
• Initiative to work independently and problem-solve solutions.
• Experience using QGIS and a basic understanding of vector, raster, and text file formats.
• Acute attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Comfortable using QGIS and spreadsheet software on repetitive tasks.

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Understanding of mapping units and format, such as longitude, minutes, UTM, datum, and projection.
• Prior coursework using QGIS for field mapping.
• Some experience coding in scientific languages such as python, R or MATLAB.

Interested applicants should contact data.contractor@koboldmetals.com.

Data Engineer (All Levels)

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread; but before new ore deposits can be mined, they have to be found. Our objective is to discover new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers.

Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and structures vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of anomalies beneath the earth’s surface and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – guide our decisions of where to acquire land, what field data to collect, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will help build a worldwide geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Data Engineer will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary data system, TerraShed™, and modeling software, Machine Prospector™
• Design components of the data system to ingest, store, process, and access a large volume and wide variety of geoscience data for both predictive modeling and visualization
• Integrate diverse and messy geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary database
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Work with data scientists to implement and improve algorithms and predictive models
• Develop interactive visualizations to enable the data team and geoscience teams to rapidly view and interrogate the model results and underlying data

Qualifications

A great Data Engineer candidate will have skills that include:

• Proficiency in Python
• A technical stack that includes Postgres/PostGIS and Elasticsearch
• Experience storing and processing diverse datasets in both relational and no-sql architectures
• Experience with data processing technologies such as Airflow, Spark, and Dask
• Experience creating/managing large databases and pipelines
• Experience with setting up and deploying systems on AWS

A great Data Engineer candidate will also be:

• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools whenever needed
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts who aren’t software people
• Keen not just to build products, but to figure out what product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses
• Comfortable with a fast-changing work environment
• Careful to get the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
• Experience with Flask or similar web frameworks
• Experience with planning and implementing information security measures
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics

Level: KoBold is willing to consider candidates at the Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or Staff Data Engineer/Architect levels, with commensurate compensation. This is an individual contributor role. This position requires a minimum of 2 years of relevant full-time professional work experience; recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

Interested applicants should contact jobs@koboldmetals.com.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread; but before new ore deposits can be mined, they have to be found. Our objective is to discover new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers.

Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and structures vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of anomalies beneath the earth’s surface and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector® software – guide our decisions of where to acquire land, what field data to collect, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will architect and deploy software to accelerate discovery of battery metals and to help construct the global geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. You will be responsible for helping us build reliable and secure infrastructure while contributing broadly across our technology stack. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary data system, TerraShed™, and modeling software, Machine Prospector®
• Design and implement infrastructure for distributed parallel ML and scientific computing
• Design, implement, and maintain security protocols for highly proprietary data
• Design components of the data system to ingest, store, process, and access a large volume and wide variety of geoscience data for both predictive modeling and visualization

Qualifications

A great Senior Infrastructure Engineer candidate will have:

• Expertise in at least one programming language (KoBold’s primary language is Python, but a candidate with expertise in, e.g., Go or Ruby will still be competitive)
• Experience designing and deploying systems in the cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure and defining those systems with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience storing and processing diverse datasets in both relational and NoSQL architectures
• Experience designing and deploying containerized solutions
• Experience building systems to develop, deploy, and instrument machine learning models
• A development style that favors rapid incremental improvements that can be continuously delivered, rather than large sweeping changes with major roll-outs
• Prior responsibility for planning and implementing information security measures, including monitoring and alerting

A great Senior Infrastructure Engineer candidate will also be:

• Motivated to build and maintain systems that meet challenging infrastructure requirements and to work closely with engineering colleagues on a broad set of infrastructure problems
• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools whenever needed
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts who aren’t solely software engineers
• Keen not just to build products, but to figure out what product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses
• Focused on making decisions about risk based on practical considerations and a deep understanding of the company’s business, rather than on compliance checklists or blind adherence to a preferred set of practices
• A clear technical writer, reflecting a deep understanding of what guidance users/colleagues need to effectively and efficiently use the systems you build
• Comfortable with a fast-changing work environment
• Careful to get the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
• Experience with Kubernetes
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics

Level: KoBold is happy to consider candidates varying experience levels, with commensurate compensation. This is an individual contributor role. This position requires a minimum of 4 years of relevant full-time professional work experience; recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Any location within the U.S. or Canada. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. KoBold has its primary technology office in Berkeley, CA, and also has offices in Vancouver, BC and Madison, WI; however, we are a remote-first company and our technology and our geoscience teams are highly distributed.

Interested applicants should send a resume to jobs@koboldmetals.com.

Data Engineer – Geospatial (All Levels)

About the company

KoBold Metals is using machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to explore for the critical materials needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread; but before new ore deposits can be mined, they have to be found. Our objective is to discover new ore deposits rich in critical battery materials. KoBold’s team combines the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers.

Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates and structures vast collections of scientific data from around the world. We use the data in TerraShed™ to predict the locations of anomalies beneath the earth’s surface and to rigorously quantify how new data can decrease the uncertainty of our predictions. These models – our Machine Prospector™ software – guide our decisions of where to acquire land, what field data to collect, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will help build the worldwide geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Your role will be a key link between the way that data scientists and geologists interact with our data system. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Geospatial Data Engineer will:

• Design aspects of the TerraShed™ data system to ingest, store, and quickly process and access a wide variety of geoscience data
• Integrate diverse and messy geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary data system
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Develop methods and tools to enable data scientists and geoscientists to rapidly view and interrogate both model results and underlying data

Qualifications

A great Geospatial Data Engineer candidate will have skills and knowledge that include:

• Proficiency in Python
• Proficiency in Postgres/PostGIS
• Familiarity with open-source libraries for manipulating (e.g., GDAL, ogr), visualizing (e.g., leaflet), and serving (e.g., WMS) geospatial data
• Familiarity with desktop software used for geospatial visualization and analysis and experience integrating these tools with other data systems, e.g., through custom plugins
• Familiarity with how geologists use 2D and 3D geospatial data, including both analyses based on 2D GIS projects as well as 3D modeling
• Experience with setting up and deploying systems on AWS

A great Geospatial Data Engineer candidate will also be:

• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools whenever needed
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts who aren’t software people
• Keen not just to build products, but to figure out what product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses
• Comfortable with a fast-changing work environment
• Careful to get the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in geoscience, other physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics
• Experience with Flask or similar web frameworks

Level: KoBold is willing to consider candidates at the Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or Staff Data Engineer/Architect levels, with commensurate compensation. This is an individual contributor role. This position requires a minimum of 2 years of relevant full-time professional work experience; recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

Interested applicants should contact jobs@koboldmetals.com.

Principal Geoscientist (Geologist, Geochemist, or Geophysicist)

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

This role has several important components: You will lead evaluations of potential properties for acquisition, generate targets, and design and oversee field programs from target definition through to resource expansion. You will work closely with data scientists to generate and implement analytical methods in our software platform. You will advise exploration teams across the company in your area of expertise. And you will help shape the technical road map of the company through leading-edge thinking on exploration methods, the science of ore deposit formation, and priority areas and deposit styles.

You will work directly with our senior technical advisors, academic collaborators, and external experts, and you will work with the executive team on making the investment case for acquisitions, field programs, and partnerships.

Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries by generating novel ideas of where and how to explore and put them into practice through rigorous analysis of geoscientific data and close collaboration with KoBold data scientists.

Responsibilities

The Principal Geoscientist will:

• Demonstrate in all activities a commitment to the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations
• Rigorously analyze geoscientific datasets across a range of scales from provinces to prospects to determine exploration potential and to identify, rank, and prioritize exploration targets
• Help to shape our exploration strategy, area selection, and evaluation of each project and set of targets through exceptional knowledge of the relevant ore system and exploration methods
• Identify or develop innovative analytical methods and work with KoBold data scientists and software engineers to implement them in our software and to apply them to current or potential projects
• Design and oversee field programs ranging from geological mapping and sampling of grass roots prospects through to large drilling programs on advanced projects
• Devise data acquisition programs that improve upon current leading industry practice by leveraging KoBold’s technological capabilities and see them through to successful implementation in KoBold field programs
• Provide technical guidance to KoBold and our JV partners’ in-country project teams

Qualifications

A great Principal Geoscientist candidate will have

Exploration experience:

• A proven track record of discovery, as a leader or member of a team that found an ore deposit
• Excellence in generative analysis ranging from new concepts to integration, interpretation, and modeling of large datasets
• Excellent field skills and experience working across a range of project stages from grassroots prospects through to advanced projects with significant drilling and other geoscience data

Technical knowledge:

• A deep understanding of one or more ore deposit types, preferably including sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits and/or magmatic sulfide deposits
• A high level of specific expertise in at least one specific subject area, such as sediment-hosted or orthomagmatic ore systems or the collection and analysis of geochemical or classes of geophysical data
• Broad expertise in the geochemistry, geophysics, and geology of ore genesis with practical application to sediment-hosted, magmatic-hydrothermal, and/or magmatic sulfide systems

Other key skills and work practices:

• Proficiency in exploration software packages such as QGIS/ArcGIS, Leapfrog, and ioGAS
• Demonstrated leadership skills including the ability to motivate and inspire others, to share ownership and responsibility for project outcomes, and to work effectively in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
• A strong track record of coaching and training geoscientists of varying experience, educational backgrounds and cultures in leading-practice mineral exploration
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace

Training and work experience:

• A minimum of 15 years experience in the mineral exploration industry
• An M.Sc. or higher degree in a geoscience field or in a related physical science
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity

It is preferred but not required to have:

• A Ph.D. in a geoscience field or related physical science
• Research experience or other published work on exploration methods or ore-forming processes
• Working knowledge of one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, R, C/C++) and experience with scientific computing
• Excellence in statistical or quantitative methods for analyzing geoscientific data

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: We are open to candidates anywhere in the world. KoBold Metals has offices in Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA, and a presence in Zambia.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Senior Data Scientist

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will build predictive models and apply a wide range of scientific computing, statistical, and physics-based methods to find places where there is evidence of ore-forming processes at work and to predict the locations of ore-grade mineralization in 2D and 3D. You will help build a worldwide dataset that underlies our exploration program, with careful attention to identifying and quantifying uncertainty in the data and in our predictions. You will be creating models and developing software to accelerate discovery of critical battery metals.

You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists to incorporate our best understanding of the chemical and physical processes that create ore deposits. Working with your geoscience colleagues, you will create 2D and 3D geologic predictions, identify exploration targets, design field programs to collect data, and use that data to reduce the uncertainty in our predictions and guide the next phase of field work.

Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries by building data tools to solve scientific problems. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Senior Data Scientist will:

• 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.

Qualifications

A great Senior Data Scientist candidate will have:

Technical skills, including extensive experience with:

• Python’s data science packages and general software engineering practices.
• Collaborative software development (git), and familiarity with software engineering best practices like unit test / integration test suites, and CICD pipelines.
• SQL, as well as familiarity with non-relational databases.
• Cloud computing resources.
• Building a wide variety of predictive models, applying them to different problems, and evaluating and interpreting the results.
• Working with a broad range of types of data including data from physical systems.
• Geospatial analyses and visualizations.

Technical knowledge:

• Broad skills in and knowledge of applied statistics
• Substantial understanding of Machine Learning algorithms

Training and work experience:

• An advanced degree in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics.
• Post-degree work experience as a data scientist or data engineer. KoBold is willing to consider candidates at the Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist, or Staff Data Scientist levels, with commensurate compensation, however recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.

Work practices and motivation:

• Ability to take ownership and responsibility of large projects.
• Enjoys constantly learning such that you are and driving insights and innovations.
• Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who aren’t software developers.
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities.
• Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively.

It is also helpful but not required to have experience with:

• Creating machine learning models on geospatial data
• Geostatistics
• Image processing or computer vision
• Distributed computing applications for machine learning and other computations
• Containerization solutions

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote from any location in the US or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Accountant (Part-Time)

About the company

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company that uses machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to increase the ethical supply of critical materials (i.e., Ni, Co, Cu, Li, Pt, and Pd) needed to build electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread, but before new ore deposits can be mined, they must be found.

KoBold is the first full-stack exploration company. We combine the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers to bring a comprehensive skill set to bear on exploration. Our technology has been built from scratch by alumni of top Silicon Valley software companies to guide every aspect of mineral exploration as well as mine development and operations. Our team consists of dozens of PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics, as well as top mineral explorers who collectively have >300 years of exploration experience and have made nearly 20 discoveries.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

This is a part-time remote role reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations. In this role, you will record and analyze accounting transactions, prepare financial reports and financial statements as well as provide support in miscellaneous areas of operations. Since KoBold is a small startup company, your role will be dynamic, requiring adjustments as the company grows. Work hours are flexible.

Responsibilities

The Accountant will:

• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial statements
• Maintain accounting records for subsidiaries
• Reconcile intercompany accounts
• Oversee time tracking for projects
• Prepare miscellaneous project reports
• Record accounting transactions and journal entries in Quickbooks Online
• Prepare bank and credit card reconciliations
• Perform reconciliations of noncash assets and liabilities
• Prepare annual filings for corporate entities
• Review payroll tax returns
• Provide onboarding for new employees and assist with other HR activities
• Organize and/or provide support for miscellaneous projects
• Oversee compliance training and documentation
• Provide support for recruiting new candidates
• Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Determine what is needed to support company operations and proactively pursue it

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting plus two or more years experience in accounting
• Experience with Quickbooks Online
• Proficiency in spreadsheet-based analysis
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to quickly learn new tools as needed
• A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
• Ability to troubleshoot critical issues in a timely fashion
• Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed

It is helpful but not required to have experience with:

• Financial statement audits
• Consolidated financial statements
• International accounting issues

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is part-time, 15-20 hours per week, with potential to grow over time given a candidate’s interests.

Location: KoBold Metals will consider applicants in any U.S. location who are interested in working remotely. CFO / CTO and Director of Finance and Operations are located in Birmingham, AL. The company’s main office is located in Berkeley, CA.

Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter to admin@koboldmetals.com.

Administrative Assistant (Part-Time)

About the company

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company that uses machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to increase the ethical supply of critical materials (i.e., Ni, Co, Cu, Li, Pt, and Pd) needed to build electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread, but before new ore deposits can be mined, they must be found.

KoBold is the first full-stack exploration company. We combine the world’s top mineral explorers with an outstanding team of data scientists and software engineers to bring a comprehensive skill set to bear on exploration. Our technology has been built from scratch by alumni of top Silicon Valley software companies to guide every aspect of mineral exploration as well as mine development and operations. Our team consists of dozens of PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics, as well as top mineral explorers who collectively have >300 years of exploration experience and have made nearly 20 discoveries.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

This is a part-time remote administrative support role reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations. You will provide direct support to all members of the team, specifically the CEO, CFO / CTO, and Director of Finance and Operations. Since KoBold is a small startup company, your role will be dynamic, requiring adjustments as the company grows. Work hours are flexible.

Responsibilities

The Administrative Assistant will:

• Provide support to team members
• Provide support for recruiting new candidates, including interview scheduling
• Provide onboarding for new employees and assist with other HR activities
• Organize and implement Board meetings and other office meetings and events
• Handle travel arrangements as needed
• Organize and/or provide support for miscellaneous projects
• Oversee compliance training and documentation
• Stock kitchen and office supplies (once our offices reopen)
• Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Determine what is needed to support company operations and proactively pursue it

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to quickly learn new tools as needed
• A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
• Ability to troubleshoot critical issues in a timely fashion
• Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed

It is helpful but not required to have experience with:

• Payroll and Human Resources
• Bookkeeping
• Quickbooks Online

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is part-time, 15-20 hours per week, with potential to grow over time given a candidate’s interests.

Location: KoBold Metals will consider applicants in any U.S. location who are interested in working remotely. CFO / CTO and Director of Finance and Operations are located in Birmingham, AL. The company’s main office is located in Berkeley, CA.

Interested applicants should send a resume to admin@koboldmetals.com.

Geologist

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

KoBold is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Geologist who will be part of our multidisciplinary exploration team, reporting to the VP Exploration. In this role, you will be part of the core team responsible for identifying targets, conducting rigorous geologic assessments of ground for potential claim-staking or acquisition, and performing geologic analysis as well as planning and conducting field work on our properties. The Geologist will also work closely with our team of data scientists and software engineers to support development of our internal software tools and to evaluate prospects generated by our proprietary system.

Responsibilities

The Geologist will:

• Compile and evaluate various datasets at regional to prospect scales and conduct assessments of exploration potential
• Review and evaluate geoscience data provided by potential sellers of assets or joint venture partners
• Perform a range of geological analyses and work collaboratively with data scientists
• Contribute to the design, budgeting, permitting, and execution of field programs

Qualifications

A great Geologist candidate will have:

• An advanced degree in geoscience; a Ph.D. is preferred
• A minimum of 2 years experience in exploration geology or economic geology, not including graduate study
• An excellent understanding of geologic fundamentals, ore systems, and mineral exploration
• Experience evaluating ore-deposit prospectivity using field techniques and geospatial software, and an interest in doing both field and desktop work
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity

It is preferred but not required to have:

• Knowledge of geostatistics and coding (Python)
• Proficiency in QGIS, Leapfrog, and ioGAS
• Experience with magmatic sulfide and/or sediment-hosted copper systems

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: The candidate will live and work in either the USA or Canada. Although KoBold has offices in Berkeley and Vancouver, the candidate may be required to work from their home location.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

GIS Data Specialist

About the company

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company created to increase the ethical supply of critical materials, including Ni, Co, Cu, and Li, that are needed to build electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread, but before new ore deposits can be mined, they must be found.

KoBold’s objective is to make more discoveries with fewer failures by drawing on both world-class expertise in exploration geoscience and machine learning and other scientific computing techniques. KoBold employees’ equity ownership in the company enables everyone on the team to share in the value we create through our discoveries.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system and a broad suite of analytical tools that helps guide our decisions from concept generation to drill testing to resource expansion to mine development and operations. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates, structures, and QCs vast collections of scientific data and makes it rapidly available for visualization and analysis. Our suite of algorithms, Machine Prospector®, interrogates that data with a range of techniques —from computer vision to full-physics joint inversions to ensemble machine learning—to generate features that are tied to ore-forming processes or that tease out subtle signals in the data. We use those features to predict subsurface composition, permissive structural and stratigraphic settings, or other important controls on mineralization.

Our models are designed to rigorously quantify the uncertainty in our predictions and to estimate how different ways of collecting incremental data will decrease the uncertainty in our knowledge of the subsurface. These insights inform our decisions of where to acquire mineral properties, what data to collect in the field, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits. And our technology system enables us to use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

Our team includes top mineral explorers who collectively have more than 300 years of exploration experience and have made nearly 20 discoveries. KoBold geoscientists work on exploration teams jointly with outstanding data scientists, who have Ph.D.s in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor.

About the position

KoBold is looking for a highly motivated GIS Data Specialist to be part of our multidisciplinary exploration team. In this role you will be responsible for curating geoscientific datasets and using them to build well-organized and styled QGIS projects to support our exploration and scientific discovery efforts. You will strive for the highest standard of quality in curating new and existing datasets for TerraShed™ so that they are readily available to the rest of the KoBold team. You will work on the cutting edge of geospatial technology, taking it upon yourself to master software features and help our entire team level up. And you will do all of this in a startup with a rapidly-growing technological platform, working closely with our team of geoscientists, data scientists, and software engineers.

Responsibilities

The GIS Data Specialist will:

• Aggregate, QA, organize, and style spatial data from diverse sources
• Design and maintain cloud-based, high-quality, performant QGIS projects shared across multiple members of the exploration team
• Solve spatial and QGIS application data challenges, such as coordinate system registrations and transforming file types
• Independently analyze, troubleshoot, research, and resolve QGIS application problems
• Discover and ingest a wide variety of geologic, geophysical, geochemical, and geographic data with appropriate metadata into KoBold’s proprietary database TerraShed™
• Georeference and digitize maps and other images, and build training datasets for machine learning models
• Provide technical QGIS assistance to colleagues, internal training, and data policy guidance

Qualifications

A great GIS Data Specialist candidate will have:

Technical knowledge and skills:

• Strong proficiency with QGIS
• Strong knowledge of geospatial coordinate reference systems
• Experience using and converting geospatial data types, including open-source and proprietary vector and raster data formats
• Working knowledge of cloud storage (Google drive, AWS S3, etc) and familiarity of cloud optimization of geospatial datasets
• Experience using SQL databases, including querying, scripting, and use in QGIS
• Proficiency in scripting to automate repetitive processes in QGIS and handle big data
• Comfortable using GDAL and Shapely or other geospatial libraries to manipulate data

Training and work experience:

• A bachelor’s degree or substantial coursework in geospatial sciences, remote sensing, or a related discipline
• At least 2 years work experience in a GIS-centered role

Work practices and motivation:

• Excellent attention to detail, organization skills, and listening skills
• Enthusiasm for cataloging and curating data
• Eagerness to learn and to use new technologies
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks effectively
• Extreme discomfort toward bad or inconsistent data

It is helpful but not required to have experience with:

• Developing QGIS plugins for open-source or proprietary use
• Experience analyzing and or styling remote sensing data within QGIS
• Experience creating WMS layers and maintaining WMS API
• Experience scraping web sources and creating XYZ tile layers
• Experience with Leapfrog, GOCAD, or other 3D visualization package
• Working with geological, geochemical, and geophysical data in the mineral exploration industry
• Working in a software-engineering environment

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote from any location in the US or Canada.

Applicants should send a resume to jobs@koboldmetals.com.

Senior/Principal Exploration Geophysicist

About the company

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company created to increase the ethical supply of critical materials, including Ni, Co, Cu, and Li, that are needed to build electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread, but before new ore deposits can be mined, they must be found.

KoBold’s objective is to make more discoveries with fewer failures by drawing on both world-class expertise in exploration geoscience and machine learning and other scientific computing techniques. KoBold employees’ equity ownership in the company enables everyone on the team to share in the value we create through our discoveries.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system and a broad suite of analytical tools that helps guide our decisions from concept generation to drill testing to resource expansion to mine development and operations. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates, structures, and QCs vast collections of scientific data and makes it rapidly available for visualization and analysis. Our suite of algorithms, Machine Prospector®, interrogates that data with a range of techniques —from computer vision to full-physics joint inversions to ensemble machine learning—to generate features that are tied to ore-forming processes or that tease out subtle signals in the data. We use those features to predict subsurface composition, permissive structural and stratigraphic settings, or other important controls on mineralization.

Our models are designed to rigorously quantify the uncertainty in our predictions and to estimate how different ways of collecting incremental data will decrease the uncertainty in our knowledge of the subsurface. These insights inform our decisions of where to acquire mineral properties, what data to collect in the field, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits. And our technology system enables us to use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

Our team includes top mineral explorers who collectively have more than 300 years of exploration experience and have made nearly 20 discoveries. KoBold geoscientists work on exploration teams jointly with outstanding data scientists, who have Ph.D.s in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

This role is for a geophysicist with expertise in modeling geophysical data for exploration who seeks to develop new and more effective ways of extracting geologic insight from potential field and electromagnetic data.

This role has several important components: You will design and oversee geophysical data collection and analyze geophysical data for KoBold projects and potential acquisitions. You will work closely with data scientists to generate and implement analytical methods in our software. You will advise exploration teams across the company in your areas of expertise. And you will help shape the technical road map of the company through leading-edge thinking on data acquisition and analysis methods.

You will work directly with our senior technical advisors, academic collaborators, and external experts on developing new methods; you will work with contractors and JV partners on field programs; and you will work with the executive team on making the investment case for acquisitions, field programs, and partnerships.

Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries through rigorous collection and analysis of geophysical data and by generating novel ideas of how to explore and putting them into practice in collaboration with KoBold geologists and data scientists.

Responsibilities

The Exploration Geophysicist will:

• Design geophysical surveys to generate and test concepts on KoBold exploration properties
• Source, select, and oversee contractors to collect geophysical data
• Carefully quality control and process data, and develop and implement both automated and manual methods for improving the data handling steps that precede interpretation
• Rigorously analyze geophysical data for existing and potential KoBold projects as part of integrated teams with KoBold geologists and data scientists and integrated evaluations that simultaneously draw upon geophysical, geochemical, and geological data
• Draw on these analyses to propose projects, evaluate potential exploration targets, shape our exploration strategy and project selection
• Plan and budget exploration programs with careful consideration and quantification of the value to be obtained from incremental data collection
• Advise colleagues across the company on analytical methods for geophysical data
• Advise and coordinate with KoBold’s JV partners on geophysical data acquisition programs, ensuring appropriate application of and adherence to good practice in data collection
• Identify or develop innovative analytical methods and work with KoBold data scientists and software engineers to implement them in our software and to apply them to current and potential projects
• Devise data acquisition programs that improve upon current leading industry practice by leveraging KoBold’s technological capabilities and see them through to successful implementation in KoBold field programs
• Demonstrate in all activities a commitment to the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations

Qualifications

A great Exploration Geophysicist candidate will have:

Technical expertise in, and significant experience with:

• Magnetic, gravity, time-domain EM (airborne, surface, and borehole), IP, and natural-source EM methods; familiarity with seismic methods is a plus but not required
• End-to-end use of geophysical methods: designing and overseeing surveys; cleaning, applying corrections to, QA’ing, and featurizing data; and analyzing geophysical data
• Computationally intensive analytical methods, such as joint inversions and conditional inversions
• Wireline logging and perspective on its application in mineral exploration
• Applying various geophysical methods to exploration for ore deposits in a commercial context, including evaluation of trade-offs and quantifying the value of each type of information
• Applying geophysical methods in the context of different ore deposits, with a deep understanding of the relevant ore-forming processes and the settings in which those types of deposits are found; experience with sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits and/or magmatic sulfide deposits is a strong plus but not required
• Different stages of exploration projects, from greenfields regional generative efforts with coarse regional data to brownfield exploration and resource expansion problems with higher-density data including downhole geophysical measurements

Other key skills and problem-solving approach:

• Familiarity with industry standard geophysical software packages (e.g., Oasis Montaj, Maxwell) and proficiency in the kinds of analysis you can do with them…
• …but a keen awareness of their limitations and a fulsome set of ideas and capabilities to move the analysis to the way you think it should be done
• A focus on rigorously quantifying uncertainty in geophysical analysis
• An orientation toward thinking about problems from first principles, rather than relying on rules of thumb or standard workflows
• Knowledge of the state-of-the-art in geophysical data collection and analysis methods and a continued awareness of the best available technology and trends of new technology development, e.g., through reading literature, participation in conferences and training, and maintaining contacts with other practitioners
• A track record of innovation in geophysical exploration methods or analysis of geophysical data; research experience or other published work is a plus but not required
• Eagerness also to extract new insights out of historic, messy, and fragmentary data
• Strong working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, R, C/C++) and experience with scientific computing

Non-technical skills:

• Demonstrated leadership skills including the ability to motivate and inspire others, to share ownership and responsibility for project outcomes, and to work effectively and enjoy working in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
• A strong track record of coaching and training geoscientists of varying experience, educational backgrounds, and cultures in leading-practice mineral exploration
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity

Training and work experience:

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in the mineral exploration industry (or 5 years post-Ph.D.); title and compensation will be commensurate with experience
• An M.Sc. or higher degree in a geoscience field or in a related physical science (Ph.D. is a plus)
• Professional registration preferred

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: We are open to candidates anywhere in the world. KoBold Metals has offices in Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA, and a presence in Zambia.

Interested applicants should email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and a cover letter that describes your perspective on geophysical data collection and analysis and addresses the items enumerated in the problem-solving approach section above. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Senior Accountant

About the company

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company created to increase the ethical supply of critical materials, including Ni, Co, Cu, and Li, that are needed to build electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread, but before new ore deposits can be mined, they must be found.

KoBold’s objective is to make more discoveries with fewer failures by drawing on both world-class expertise in exploration geoscience and machine learning and other scientific computing techniques. KoBold employees’ equity ownership in the company enables everyone on the team to share in the value we create through our discoveries.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system and a broad suite of analytical tools that helps guide our decisions from concept generation to drill testing to resource expansion to mine development and operations. Our data platform, TerraShed™, aggregates, structures, and QCs vast collections of scientific data and makes it rapidly available for visualization and analysis. Our suite of algorithms, Machine Prospector®, interrogates that data with a range of techniques —from computer vision to full-physics joint inversions to ensemble machine learning—to generate features that are tied to ore-forming processes or that tease out subtle signals in the data. We use those features to predict subsurface composition, permissive structural and stratigraphic settings, or other important controls on mineralization.

Our models are designed to rigorously quantify the uncertainty in our predictions and to estimate how different ways of collecting incremental data will decrease the uncertainty in our knowledge of the subsurface. These insights inform our decisions of where to acquire mineral properties, what data to collect in the field, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits. And our technology system enables us to use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

Our team includes top mineral explorers who collectively have more than 300 years of exploration experience and have made nearly 20 discoveries. KoBold geoscientists work on exploration teams jointly with outstanding data scientists, who have Ph.D.s in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will record and analyze accounting transactions, prepare financial reports and financial statements as well as provide broad support to the operations of the company and its subsidiaries in North America and around the world. Since KoBold is a small startup company, your role will be dynamic and your role and responsibilities will grow as the company grows.

Responsibilities

The Senior Accountant will:

• Prepare quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements
• Maintain accounting records for subsidiaries
• Prepare all necessary monthly/quarterly/annual filings and reports for subsidiaries
• Prepare project reports
• Perform account reconciliations
• Prepare periodic corporate and tax filings for multiple jurisdictions
• Set up payroll tax accounts in new states and review payroll tax returns
• Implement and maintain new processes as the company grows
• Provide support for miscellaneous projects in accounting and operations
• Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Determine what is needed to support company operations and proactively pursue it

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 5+ years experience in accounting
• CPA certification
• Experience with Quickbooks Online or similar software
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• The ability to quickly learn new tools as needed
• A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
• Flexibility to occasionally accommodate meetings with staff/vendors overseas
• Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed

It is helpful but not required to have experience with:

• Accounting for international operations
• Consolidating financial statements with foreign subsidiaries
• Accounting for joint ventures
• Experience with technology or natural resource companies

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote. CFO and Director of Finance & Operations are located in Birmingham, AL.

Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter to admin@koboldmetals.com.

Senior/Staff Data Engineer

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will design and develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will architect and construct the global geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.

Responsibilities

The Senior Data Engineer will:

• Help design and develop KoBold’s data system, TerraShed™, and modeling software, Machine Prospector®
• Design components of the data system to ingest, store, process, and access a large volume and wide variety of geoscience data for both predictive modeling and visualization
• Integrate diverse and messy geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured database schema
• Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
• Develop interactive visualizations to enable the data team and geoscience teams to rapidly view and interrogate the model results and underlying data

Qualifications

• Expertise in Python, and a tech stack that includes most or all of: Postgres/PostGIS, AWS, Tensorflow, git, Elasticsearch, GIS
• Experience designing/creating/managing/querying relational databases and pipelines
• Experience working with diverse and “messy” data
• At least 5 years of relevant full-time professional work experience in the private sector, writing code in a production environment

A good candidate will also be:

• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, in a dynamic work environment, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools whenever needed
• Keen not just to build products, but to figure out what product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts who aren’t software people
• Able to effectively communicate engineering concepts, requirements, and processes to non-engineers
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses
• Careful to get the details right

A great candidate will have one or more of the following:

• Experience designing and developing complex data systems that integrate disparate types of fragmentary data
• Experience building systems to work with data generated from physical measurements and familiarity with statistics used in analysis of scientific data, including measurement error
• Experience building systems to develop and deploy machine learning models and familiarity with the statistics underpinning these models
• Experience with Django, Flask or similar web frameworks
• Experience working with Object-relational Mappers
• Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations
• A great track record working with colleagues in other technical disciplines (e.g., data science)
• 5+ years of relevant full-time professional work experience in the private sector
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics (an advanced degree and/or significant research experience are a definite plus)

Level: KoBold is willing to consider candidates at the Senior Data Engineer, or Staff Data Engineer/Architect levels, with commensurate compensation. This is an individual contributor role.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Senior Technical Recruiter

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help build the team that enables KoBold’s success. You will find great candidates, help us evaluate them, and run a process that results in accepted offers from outstanding team members. As the first full-time recruiter, you will lead strategy and execution of the overall recruiting function and will build this function from the ground up. Working closely with hiring managers, you will oversee a process that delivers a great candidate experience and will build a diverse pipeline of outstanding technical talent.

Responsibilities

The Senior Technical Recruiter will engage and hire outstanding talent. You will:

• Own the recruiting process from end to end
• Locate key sources of talent across all KoBold disciplines
• Identify outstanding candidates, reach out to them, and attract them to become candidates for roles at KoBold
• Conduct initial screening interviews to get candidates excited about KoBold, assess relevance of experience, technical abilities, and cultural fit
• Coordinate all aspects of the hiring process and be the primary point of contact for all candidates throughout the interview process
• Create a great experience for candidates that keeps them engaged throughout the process
• Select and implement tech tools to enable us to most effectively source candidates and manage the recruitment process
• Own KoBold’s brand presence in hiring touch points, including all social media
• Define the relevant metrics, report out on the hiring pipeline, and continually improve our sourcing strategies and hiring process
• Stay up to date on company’s organization structure and personnel policies and on federal and state laws regarding employment practices

Qualifications

A great Senior Technical Recruiter candidate will have:

• A strong track record of finding and closing a diverse pool of outstanding technical talent
• Experience recruiting both software engineers and data scientists, including the ability to engage in the substance of candidates’ prior work experience and to conduct initial technical phone screens
• Experience building a recruiting function from scratch or working in a very small recruiting team
• Successfully deployed strategies to find and hire people from underrepresented groups
• Knowledge of different sourcing tools and methodologies
• Up-to-date knowledge of external talent pools, talent personas, and other trends for filling specialized roles
• Familiarity with one or more applicant tracking system and other standard tools for sourcing, tracking, and reporting

A great Senior Technical Recruiter candidate will be:

• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, excited about working on a wide range of problems and having a wide scope of responsibility, and comfortable with a fast-changing work environment
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn in depth about KoBold’s technology and mineral exploration and geoscience more generally
• Strongly intuitive and empathetic, able to read people effectively and understand what’s important to them
• Personally engaging, able to attract great talent and to build long-term relationships

A bachelor’s degree or higher in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics is helpful but not required.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

Interested applicants should email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Senior Technical Product Manager

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help guide the development of the technology backbone that underlies our exploration programs. You will engage with KoBold data scientists and geoscientists to develop a deep understanding of the analyses and the technology tools that will best advance our exploration priorities. You will work with the executives and team leaders to develop a technology roadmap and clear set of tech development priorities. You will translate these priorities into specific requirements and work closely with the software engineering team to build new technology. And, ultimately, you will work with the data scientists and geoscientists who use these tools to guide our exploration decisions to ensure that they’re most effectively deployed. As the first person in a dedicated product role, you will have significant influence across our entire tech stack.

Responsibilities

The Senior Technical Product Manager will:

• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary data system, TerraShed™, and suite of analytical tools, Machine Prospector®
• Learn in depth about critical aspects of KoBold’s business, including: 
  • The types of geoscience data that are used in mineral exploration and how they are collected
  • The physical and chemical processes that form ore deposits
  • How KoBold is applying data science methods to exploration
  • Conventional industry practice in mineral exploration

  Note: Candidates are expected to have the capabilities and interests to learn these topics, not necessarily to to know them already

• Define specific technology aims that further KoBold’s exploration and business objectives
• Develop a prioritized technology road map by building alignment with executives and team leads
• Translate the objectives into specific engineering requirements; write clear documentation of the inputs, outputs and key functionality of products; and craft plans to develop these features with accurate estimates of time and resource requirements
• Work closely with software engineers as they architect and develop key technology components, including APIs and data models
• Take the lead on project management of tech development initiatives
• Continue engagement with data scientists and geoscientists after deployment to ensure that our technology is being used most effectively on our exploration programs and to learn what additional functionality is most important to build

Qualifications

A great Senior Technical Product Manager candidate will have:

• A track record of taking projects from identifying a need to design to deployment and post-launch refinement
• The ability to work effectively and closely with software engineers
• Working knowledge of some or all of the core types of technologies incorporated in KoBold’s codebase, such as Python, relational and no-sql architectures, containerization, data pipeline orchestration, cluster computing, Elasticsearch, and geospatial data tools (Note: while some fundamental programming knowledge is required, a strong candidate need not be able to contribute code in these areas but should be able to engage substantially on these topics)
• Broad-based knowledge of machine learning and other data science concepts applied to practical problems in a scientific or business context
• Familiarity with setting up and deploying systems on AWS
• Experience using standard project management tools to make teams more effective with low overhead
• Experience working with datasets that represent physical measurements
• Some experience working in a startup company (preferred)
• A degree in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics; a Ph.D. is helpful

A great Senior Technical Product Manager candidate will also be:

• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, to take on a wide range of responsibilities, and to learn new tech tools whenever needed
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts across multiple disciplines
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses
• Comfortable with ambiguity, able to take poorly-defined questions and turn them into actionable problems
• An outstanding technical communicator, able to clearly and succinctly articulate technical matters, to converse effectively across disciplines, and to quickly bring about a shared understanding of a vision for products that we are considering building
• A great listener with evident humility, who seeks to deeply understand the needs of colleagues without presupposing the answers
• At ease in a fast-changing work environment
• Careful to get the details right

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Accounting Manager

About the company

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them. KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of these critical EV battery minerals.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will be responsible for financial reporting for our global operations. You will propose and implement accounting policies, record transactions, consolidate financials across multiple jurisdictions and currencies, and work closely with our geologic field operations teams to directly support our worldwide exploration programs. Since KoBold is a small startup company, your role will be broad and dynamic and continue to grow with the company.

Responsibilities

The Accounting Manager will:

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements
• Reconcile accounts and maintain accounting records for subsidiaries
• Prepare periodic corporate and tax filings for multiple jurisdictions
• Set up and maintain accounting for new joint ventures and prepare reports for partners
• Help set up new companies in new jurisdictions to support global growth
• Research, propose, and implement new accounting policies and processes
• Determine what is needed to support company operations and proactively pursue it

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 7+ years experience in accounting
• CPA certification
• Experience with accounting software, such as Quickbooks Online or Xero
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• The ability to quickly learn new tools as needed
• A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
• Flexibility to occasionally accommodate meetings with staff and vendors overseas
• Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed

It is helpful but not required to have experience with one or more of the following:

• Accounting for international operations and consolidating financial statements with foreign subsidiaries
• Accounting for joint ventures
• Experience with exploration/mining, oil & gas, or other natural resource companies
• Experience with technology companies

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, anywhere in the US or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Talent & Operations Manager

About the company

KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of critical EV battery minerals. Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and retaining outstanding talent. You will handle all aspects of people operations, from performance reviews to benefits to setting up our first employees in new states and countries. As our first hire in human resources, you will be responsible for building and leading this important function to support our global growth.

Responsibilities

 
The Talent & Operations Manager will be responsible for:

• Onboarding: Smoothly take new employees from accepted offers to effective integration with the company, including payroll & benefits, immigration matters, and figuring out anything needed to employ our first person in a new state or country
• Performance Management: Coordinate performance reviews, including 360 feedback
• Talent Development: Design job levels, identify needs for professional development across each of KoBold’s disciplines, and create opportunities for employees
• Advisory: Work with company leaders on coaching and creating professional development opportunities for each employee and address any challenges that arise
• Compensation: Design a compensation strategy and advise company leaders on trends in the labor market
• Benefits: Annually review and select benefit plans, proposing and overseeing employee leave policies, and assisting employees as needed
• Compliance: Become knowledgeable about relevant employment laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where we operate and help ensure that we comply with them
• Other Operations: Help out broadly with operational matters across the company, from day-to-day matters to special projects
• Culture: Create opportunities to build and strengthen our culture of insight and discovery

Qualifications

You must have:

• At least 5 years of experience in people operations and talent development in a technology company
• Experience in an early-stage startup company, fast-growing company, or a very small HR team with a wide mandate
• Strong working knowledge of each the major HR functional areas
• The ability to quickly learn new tools as needed and solve new problems continuously
• A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
• Enthusiasm for working as an individual contributor in a fast-changing environment
• Enjoyment in working with people in a wide variety of disciplines and in different parts of the world
• Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed
• A sense of humor and a propensity to focus mainly on the few things that matter most

It is helpful but not required to have experience with companies operating in multiple states and/or countries.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, anywhere in the US or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Safety & Field Operations Manager

About the company

KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of critical EV battery minerals. Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will help us conduct safe and effective field operations on our exploration projects around the world. You will work closely with the COO and the leaders of each of our field programs to plan and execute our field activities to meet our business objectives without causing harm to our people, our contractors and partners, or the communities and environments where we operate.

Responsibilities

 
The Safety & Field Operations Manager will be responsible for:

• Operations Control Center: Maintain daily contact with and monitor the status of KoBold personnel and contractors while in the field
• Reporting: Set up and maintain KoBold’s system for tracking health & safety incidents and provide periodic reporting
• Compliance: Understand applicable local laws and regulations and the practices of our joint venture partners and ensure that we follow them in all our operations
• Field Service Contractors: Identify and evaluate contractors and vendors for a wide range of field operations, from camp construction to helicopter transport to emergency medical services
• Contract Administration and Invoicing: Review contracts and reconcile invoices to budgets, contract terms, and goods/services delivered to ensure proper payment
• Logistics: Arrange for the shipment of equipment and material to and from KoBold’s project sites
• Process Improvement: Creating ways of working that allow us to continue to work more effectively and to be nimble so that we can support machine-learning-driven dynamic field programs, where we adapt our plan based on the data we collect at each stage
• Other Operations: Help out broadly with operational matters across the company, from insurance to stakeholder relations

Qualifications

You must have:

• At least 5 years of experience conducting field operations in mineral exploration & mining, oil & gas or a related industry
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health & safety in the workplace
• A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
• Enjoyment in working with people in a wide variety of disciplines and different parts of the world
• Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed

It is helpful but not required to have:

• Run programs in different countries and/or remote environments
• Worked in a small company or as a member of a very small team with a broad mandate

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, anywhere in the US or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Business Development Manager

About the company

KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of critical EV battery minerals. Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will work with the Director of Corporate Development on activities informing corporate strategy, corporate and project finance, and business development. The work will entail both economic assessments of global battery metal market dynamics and detailed analysis of specific project economics. You will also work on KoBold’s corporate financial planning and on communications with the Board of Directors, counterparties, investors, and partners.

Responsibilities

 
The Business Development Manager will be responsible for:

• Refreshing existing and conducting original market analyses on the economics of the entire battery materials supply chain
• Refining and creating new detailed economic assessments on specific battery metals development projects
• Preparing materials for the Board of Directors as well for other outside investors or partners
• Coordinating with various stakeholders to screen deal flow of potential projects
• Participating in due diligence processes and guiding transactions through completion

Qualifications

A great Business Development candidate will have:

• BA/BS in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, or economics (advanced degree will be a material plus)
• 2 years work experience at a startup, investment firm, or top professional services firm
• Experience with Python or other programming language
• Experience with financial modeling
• Experience with and/or strong intuition for global market dynamics
• Regardless of formal training, a strong interest in and/or strong intuition for the physical sciences will be a material plus

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, anywhere in the US or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Director of Engineering

About the company

KoBold’s mission is to electrify the economy and help solve climate change by using AI to discover new, ethical sources of critical EV battery minerals. Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is a critical need to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. To build the batteries for these vehicles, we need all of the world’s reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium plus another $10 trillion of new sources of those metals. Before we can mine those resources, we have to find them.

Today, the mineral exploration industry is making fewer and fewer discoveries because the easy-to-find deposits have already been found and mined, and the remaining ore deposits are deeper underground and harder to see from where we sit on the surface. KoBold’s technology was designed to pick up the faint signals in the data that point the way to hidden ore deposits below.

Our technology includes a comprehensive data system, TerraShed™, and a broad library of predictive models, Machine Prospector®. TerraShed™ takes all types of geoscientific data from around the world and ingests, structures, transforms, quality-controls, stores, and serves it for both visualization and machine learning. Machine Prospector® is a wide range of analytical tools, from physical models to ensemble machine learning to computer vision, that we use to predict where the conditions might have been right to form an ore deposit.

We use these models to decide where and how to explore: first we acquire land; then, we send our geologists to map and sample the rocks, we commission geophysical and spectral surveys from aircraft and satellites, and we drill holes to make discoveries. At every stage, we use new information in the field to refine our models and adapt our field programs in real time.

When we make a discovery, we own the property, so our employees’ equity represents a direct ownership stake in our portfolio of mineral assets. A single discovery could contain enough raw materials to put tens to hundreds of millions of new electric vehicles on the road and thereby reduce CO2 emissions by tens to hundreds of millions of tonnes per year.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, and software engineering. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor.

About the position

In this role, you will lead the team that builds the software backbone that underlies the company’s entire approach to mineral exploration. You will work closely with leaders in data science and geoscience to understand how the software engineering team can most effectively help the company make discoveries, develop a technology roadmap to achieve these objectives. You will grow the team, integrate new team members, and be responsible for the professional development of everyone on the engineering team. You will run the day-to-day working cadence, and have oversight over or direct responsibility for technical matters such as overall IT security and infrastructure and vendor choices and costs. Ultimately, your role is to enable the engineering team to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.

Responsibilities

The Director of Engineering will be responsible for:

Setting objectives and direction:

• • • Deeply understand the exploration objectives of the company through reading and dialogue with data science and geoscience leaders
    • With input from team members and company leaders, formulate the engineering components of our technology development roadmap for each upcoming quarter and half-year

Technical leadership:

• • • Lead the week-to-week working cadence, ensure that we are setting clear goals and timelines, and align our planning/tracking frameworks with our plans
    • Provide guidance to team members on triage and near-term prioritization; handle and prioritize ad hoc requests
    • Provide input to and be a sounding board for engineering team members on technical challenges and design proposals, and facilitate technical discussions that advance our collective understanding of the problem and develop solutions
    • Contribute to and review code across a range of components of our tech stack to gain familiarity with the code, collaborate with engineering colleagues, and help where needed

Team-building:

• • • Create a staff/resource plan for the upcoming year indicating both the capacity and the capabilities required to deliver against the engineering roadmap
    • Oversee, guide, and participate in screening and interviewing candidates
    • Revise and maintain our tools and framework for assessing engineering candidates
    • Identify sources of great candidates and ways to improve KoBold’s profile among groups we wish to recruit from, e.g., outreach to groups and organizations, open-source sponsorships, or posts on a company blog or Medium site
    • Create and implement an effective onboarding experience for new engineering team members

Professional development:

• • • Understand the professional development objectives of all team members and create opportunities for each person to work on problems that advance their objectives
    • Have periodic individual check-ins and provide timely and actionable feedback
    • Conduct thoughtful, and strengths-based performance reviews
    • Design or maintain an engineering job ladder and clear descriptions for performance at each job level

Security:

• • • Periodically convene internal security reviews and source external security audits
    • Plan and prioritize measures to improve security
    • Maintain company-wide IT security policy and take measures to probe and ensure compliance

Infrastructure and vendor management:

• • • Keep watch on the costs and usage of AWS and other external software providers, forecast costs, and identify and prioritize cost-saving opportunities
    • Identify and source specialist expertise where needed and identify and evaluate opportunities to use third-party tools
    • Facilitate or oversee consideration of any material new vendor or third-party relationship and manage ongoing relationships with vendors and contractors

Qualifications

A great Director of Engineering candidate will have:

• • • A deep technical skillset and significant experience working as both an engineer and a manager
    • Successfully grown a team several-fold starting from less than 10 engineers
    • Delivered complex products, including those involving multiple business functions
    • Had direct responsibility for two or more of the following areas or direct reports with these profiles: data engineering, back-end engineering, machine learning engineering, data science, dev ops

A great Director of Engineering candidate will be:

• • • Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn in depth about KoBold’s technology and mineral exploration and geoscience more generally
    • Eager to work on challenging, ambiguous scientific problems
    • Versatile, resource, and comfortable with a fast-changing work environment
    • Strongly intuitive and empathetic, able to read people effectively and understand what’s important to them, and able to attract great talent and to build long-term relationships

An advanced degree in the physical sciences or engineering is helpful but not required.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, anywhere in the US or Canada.

Interested applicants may apply here or can email jobs@koboldmetals.com with a resume and cover letter. Candidates should state whether they currently have authorization to work in the US or Canada.