KoBold Metals is hiring a
Data Scientist

Summary

KoBold Metals is hiring a Computer Vision Scientist to build predictive models and apply various scientific computing methods to transform remote sensing data. The role involves developing KoBold's in-house remote sensing instrumentation, creating modeling tools to optimize data collection, and making statistically valid predictions about the locations of compositional anomalies within the Earth's crust.

Requirements

• A successful track record of working with imaging instrumentation, especially scientific cameras and illumination systems as well as developing and deploying state-of-the-art spectral analysis techniques
• Technical skills, including extensive experience with physical measurement and data analysis systems, applying scientific knowledge to identify and prototype emerging technologies, systems integration and data acquisition, Python’s data science packages and general software engineering practices, collaborative software development (git), familiarity with software engineering best practices like unit test / integration test suites, and CICD pipelines, using cloud computing resources to perform scientific analysis at scale, building a wide variety of predictive models, applying them to different problems, and evaluating and interpreting the results
• Technical knowledge: Traditional image processing techniques such as edge detection, transforms, image stitching, etc…, Deep learning image processing techniques such as supervised and unsupervised classification
• An advanced degree in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics or equivalent industry experience
• Post-degree work experience as a scientist or engineer

Responsibilities

• Apply state-of-the-art analysis techniques, including extracting features and classes from gigapixel scale multispectral images
• Model and simulate the imaging chain from sensor through optics and processing to improve data collection and guide development of future instruments
• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software exploration tools
• 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 a range of data processing, statistical, and physics-based techniques to geoscientific data
• Present to and collaborate with our external partners and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Geophysical data, instrumentation, and inverse problems
• Project and team management

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $120,000-$200,000
• KoBold Metals is a remote first workplace, open to candidates currently residing anywhere in the United States or Canada