Senior Software Engineer, Scientific Computing – Hardware/Sensors

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and sustain essential scientific computing libraries for mineral exploration analysis.

• Incorporate third-party and domain-specific tools into unified, repeatable workflows.

• Create tools for swift Jupyter notebook prototyping, experimentation, evaluation, simulation, scalable ML pipelines, and organized model repetition.

• Troubleshoot issues across third-party binaries, undocumented formats, external code, and deployed instrumentation.

• Apply and mentor best engineering practices, including the development of robust, testable, and composable code.

• Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists, and engineers to enhance KoBold's scientific computing framework.

• Travel occasionally to exploration sites to assess product impact and design technologies that facilitate mineral discovery.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a software engineering, data science, or ML engineering role.

• Experience handling a variety of distinct technical challenges.

• Proven history of developing production-quality data processing solutions or tools that have provided business value.

• Strong understanding of foundational ML concepts, encompassing statistical, traditional, and deep learning methodologies.

• Proficient in Python, preferably with experience in xarray and NumPy.

• Familiarity with physical-world data, including measurements, outputs from scientific instruments, imagery, or geophysical data.

• Experience in visualizing scientific data for domain experts.

• Practical experience with hardware, flight, space, laboratory instrumentation, or field-deployed systems.

• Capability to work with complex geology and mineral exploration domains, utilizing limited, disparate, and noisy data sources.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with data scientists, geoscientists, software engineers, and operations stakeholders.

• Competence in managing large projects and independently prioritizing various tasks.

• Skill in communicating technical challenges and solutions to non-software domain experts.

• Enthusiasm for joining a rapidly growing early-stage company and thriving in a dynamic environment.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for occasional travel to exploration sites worldwide, approximately twice a year based on project requirements.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and affirmative action in the workplace.