Senior Software Engineer, Scientific Computing

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain foundational scientific computing libraries for mineral exploration analyses.
• Integrate third-party and domain-specific tooling into coherent, repeatable pipelines across heterogeneous systems.
• Build machine-learning experimentation, evaluation, simulation, and production-pipeline tooling, including support for rapid prototyping in Jupyter notebooks.
• Organize models and outputs for repeatability and discoverability.
• Debug across third-party binaries, undocumented formats, external code, and deployed instrumentation.
• Apply and coach engineering best practices for robust, testable, and composable code.
• Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists, and engineers to develop KoBold’s scientific computing stack.
• Travel occasionally to exploration sites to evaluate scientific computing products and design new technologies.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer, data scientist, or ML engineer; most successful candidates will have closer to 10 years.
• Experience across many distinct technical problem types and a track record of delivering production-quality data-processing solutions or tooling with business value.
• Proficiency with foundational machine-learning concepts, including statistical, traditional, and deep-learning approaches.
• Proficiency in Python, ideally including xarray and numpy.
• Experience working with physical-world data such as measurements, scientific instrument output, imagery, or geophysical data.
• Experience visualizing scientific data for domain experts.
• Hands-on experience with hardware, flight, space, laboratory instrumentation, or field-deployed systems.
• Ability to work through novel technical problems involving complex geology, mineral exploration practices, and limited, disparate, noisy data sources.
• Ability to collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists, software engineers, operations, and other domain experts.
• Ability to take ownership of large projects, explain technical issues to non-software developers, prioritize multiple tasks independently, and work effectively in a dynamic early-stage company.

Benefits

• Full-time exempt position.
• Remote work available to candidates located anywhere in the United States or Canada.
• Occasional travel to exploration sites worldwide, approximately twice per year depending on project needs.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.