Software Engineer

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

About the company

In the coming decades, demand for critical minerals such as copper, lithium, and cobalt will continue to grow. These minerals are needed to build electric infrastructure, vehicles, data centers, and electronics. However, the mining industry is making 10x fewer discoveries per dollar spent on exploration compared to 30 years ago because the easy-to-find, near surface deposits have largely been discovered. KoBold was founded to be the first AI native mineral exploration, mine development, and technology development company. Our goal is to turn mineral exploration into a repeatable science to discover the minerals the world needs, by integrating artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and new technology. Our first discovery, Mingomba, is a high-grade copper deposit in Zambia. KoBold runs exploration programs in eight countries. KoBold is privately held; investors include T. Rowe Price, Canada Pension Plan Investments, Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, Standard Investments, BHP and Mitsubishi.

About the role

At KoBold, software engineers embed directly with their users and learn the ins and outs of mineral exploration and geology while developing state of the art technology solutions. As a Software Engineer on the Data Systems Engineering team, 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, and RAG (Retrieval Augmentation Generation) on unstructured data. Our tech stack is primarily Python and includes Django, React, AWS, and additional technologies like Retool and Prefect.

This role will be responsible for: deep engagement with exploration geologists and data scientists and tailoring technology development to the needs of exploration project scientists; building 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; developing expertise in KoBold’s Data Systems; end-to-end ownership of projects from design to implementation and testing to continued engagement with colleagues; responding well to design and code feedback and providing feedback to teammates; and operationally managing the team’s services.

Qualifications

4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally building production cloud data systems. Proficiency with Python. Ability to write production-quality code that is correct, readable, well-tested, scalable and extensible. Skilled in large-scale system design. A track record of taking ownership and delivering projects with demonstrated impact in an iterative manner. Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about mineral exploration and geology. Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who are not software developers. Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company. Nice to haves: experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React; experience with geospatial data and building map-based experiences; familiarity with Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes; formal education or job exposure to natural sciences.

The UK base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $120,000 – $210,000 USD. Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United Kingdom. Joining KoBold means getting hands-on exposure to our exploration projects around the world. All employees are expected to travel to project sites, with a minimum of one week per year.

Source: Jobspresso (https://jobspresso.co/job/software-engineer-2/)