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divh2Senior Software Engineer/h2pstrongSenior Software Engineer/strong/ppThe mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring 10X more capital to make discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-find, near-surface deposits have largely been found, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the manual techniques of yesteryear even as demand accelerates for copper, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers./ppKoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those modelsalongside our novel sensorsto guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly lead exploration programs with our renowned exploration geologists./ppKoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and found one of the best copper deposits ever discovered: the copper is far more concentrated than the global average of copper mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful revenue for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other projects, each of which has the potential for another high-quality discovery./ppKoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi./ppWe are hiring Senior Software Engineers to accelerate our mission./ph3About The Role/h3pAt KoBold, software engineers have the unique opportunity to embed directly with their users and learn the ins and outs of mineral exploration and geology while developing state of the art technology solutions. Unlike traditional software engineering roles, we dont simply ship code and passively wait for feedback about its utility: our userbase includes our colleagues and ourselves! While there are real technical challenges in making mineral exploration data broadly searchable and accessible to both humans and machines, we believe that solving these technical challenges cannot be done without getting our hands dirty sometimes literally! by embedding directly with the exploration teams and even occasionally (~once a year) joining our colleagues in the field, be it in Zambia, Canada, or Arizona, to experience the impact of our software in real time./ppAs a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Systems Engineering team at KoBold, your main role will be to enable systematic exploration and materially improve exploration success rates by making mineral exploration data broadly accessible to humans and machines. Past projects have included SIP (the Structured Ingest Pipeline), DataKit generation (producing curated sets of data on demand), and RAG (Retrieval Augmentation Generation, utilizing natural language processing on unstructured data). Our tech stack is primarily python and includes Django, React, AWS, and additional technologies like Retool and Prefect./ppYour work will empower KoBold to unlock invaluable insights and streamline intricate scientific processes. Collaborating with our exceptional team of data scientists, geologists, and other software engineers, you will have the opportunity to tackle complex problems head-on and collectively pave the way for the discoveries of vital energy transition metals like lithium, copper, nickel, and cobalt. Together we can shape the future of mineral exploration and contribute to building a sustainable world./ppThis role be responsible for:/pulliDeep engagement with exploration geologists and data scientists, continual learning about mineral exploration, and tailoring technology development to the needs of exploration project scientists/liliBuilding data pipelines and tooling for deriving advanced human and machine insights from exploration data, often leading a small group of software engineers to successful delivery/liliDeveloping expertise in KoBolds Data Systems and deeply understanding how they impact exploration/liliEnd-to-end ownership of projects from design to implementation and testing to continued engagement with colleagues on exploration teams using your solutions/liliResponding well to design and code feedback, also providing feedback to teammates/liliOperationally managing the teams services and assisting scientific colleagues with our tooling/li/ulh3Qualifications/h3ulli4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally building production cloud data systems/liliProficiency with Python/liliAbility to write production-quality code that is correct, readable, well-tested, scalable and extensible/liliSkilled in large-scale system design/liliA track record of taking ownership from definition of the problem and delivering projects with demonstrated impact in an iterative manner/liliIntellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. Enjoys constantly learning such that you are driving insights through using our tools in exploration and willing to work directly with geologists in the field./liliAbility to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who are not software developers. A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across the company./liliExcitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities./liliKeen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company./li/ulh3Nice To Haves/h3ulliExperience with modern frontend frameworks such as React/liliExperience with geospatial data and building map-based experiences/liliFamiliarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms, such as Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, etc./liliFormal education or job exposure to natural sciences/li/ulpThe US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $175,000 - $210,000./ppLocation: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada./p/div