Staff Applied Scientist – Metalab

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

📋 Description

• Create cutting-edge instruments to gather data for mineral exploration initiatives

• Simulate, analyze, and calibrate sensor functionalities

• Design innovative data acquisition systems

• Collaborate with vendors and partners to construct hardware

• Implement hardware alongside operations personnel in the field

• Develop models utilizing sensor and other data to detect ore-forming processes and forecast ore-grade mineralization in both 2D and 3D

• Establish a global dataset while identifying and quantifying uncertainty in data and forecasts

• Construct models and create software to expedite the discovery of essential battery metals

• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and geoscientists to integrate geological, chemical, and physical process insights

• Discover new opportunities and technologies for geophysical data collection

• Generate 2D and 3D geological predictions and pinpoint exploration targets

• Design field programs, gather data, reduce uncertainty, and direct future fieldwork

• Design, build, and implement mineral exploration data collection tools and methodologies

• Develop proprietary software tools for exploration

• Locate, curate, and combine geospectral, geophysical, geochemical, geological, and geographic data

• Create visual representations for model assessment and interaction with foundational data

• Employ data processing, statistical, physics-based, computer vision, and geophysical inversion methodologies

• Present findings and collaborate with external partners and stakeholders

• Implement spatially aware clustering, anomaly detection, and other robust analysis techniques

• Work together on algorithms that merge large and intricate datasets for mineral exploration

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven ability to swiftly absorb and synthesize intricate information, with a history of high intellectual rigor in a professional environment

• Exceptional curiosity and a strong desire to learn

• Successful experience developing complex equipment with interdisciplinary teams and vendors

• Extensive background in physical measurement and data analysis systems utilizing optics, electromagnetism, radiation, and gravity

• Experience in applying scientific knowledge to identify and prototype cutting-edge technologies

• Familiarity with systems integration and data acquisition

• Significant experience with Python’s data science libraries and overall software engineering principles

• Background in collaborative software development using git, unit/integration test suites, and CI/CD practices

• Proficient in SQL and knowledgeable about non-relational databases

• Experience with cloud computing resources

• Skilled in building, applying, evaluating, and interpreting predictive models

• Competence in data analysis, physics analysis, and applied statistics on data from physical systems

• Ability to apply machine learning to mineral exploration, comprehend geology and mineral exploration practices, and work with limited, diverse, and noisy data sources

• Experience in deploying sensors in field environments

• Capacity to take ownership of large-scale projects

• Capability to work directly with geologists in the field

• Competence in articulating technical challenges to domain experts who are not software developers

• Ability to independently prioritize multiple responsibilities

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada

• Willingness to travel 10–20%

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity compensation

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• 401k retirement plan

• Short-term disability insurance

• Long-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Paid sick time

• Parental leave

• Hands-on exposure to exploration projects globally