Data Scientist - Staff or Senior
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KoBold MetalsMineral Exploration
All candidates must be legally authorized to work in one of the following countries: United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Finland, Sweden, or Botswana.Full-TimeSenior
Salary$140k-$240k per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- A minimum work experience of 4 years post PhD or 8 years post MS
- Required Skills
- PythonCloud ComputingGitMachine LearningCI/CDComputer Vision
Requirements
- Advanced degree in physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics.
- Minimum 4 years of work experience post PhD or 8 years post MS.
- Extensive experience with Python’s data science packages.
- Proficiency in collaborative software development (git) and best practices (unit/integration testing, CI/CD pipelines).
- Experience with cloud computing resources.
- Demonstrated ability to build, evaluate, and interpret predictive models.
- Broad skills in applied statistics and Bayesian inference.
- Substantial understanding of machine learning algorithms.
- Experience leading technical teams to apply novel scientific approaches to business problems.
- Willingness to travel for field observations at project sites (minimum one week per year).
- Ability to work cross-functionally and explain technical problems to domain experts.
Responsibilities
- Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software exploration tools.
- Find and curate 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 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.
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