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Senior Applied Scientist – Onsite/Hybrid
KoBold Metals. Drive the design, development, and deployment of subsurface imaging hardware for muon projects with high energy physics detectors and seismic measurements with seismometers .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Drive the design, development, and deployment of subsurface imaging hardware for muon projects with high energy physics detectors and seismic measurements with seismometers
- Own mechanical and electrical systems through the full technical lifecycle, from concept and prototyping through validation, manufacturing, and field deployment
- Coordinate internal and external hardware and software engineering resources
- Define system architectures and navigate technical tradeoffs involving cost, complexity, and timelines
- Collaborate with data systems and exploration teams to integrate new data streams into KoBold’s proprietary data system
- Ensure instrumentation and generated data meet mineral exploration user needs and field requirements
- Build partnerships and source and contract with service providers and vendors
- Create product plans and mechanical and electrical designs from concept through prototyping and production
- Contribute engineering expertise, analysis, and design to hardware projects across KoBold
- Develop hardware development tools, processes, and organizational discipline
- Report to the Head of Subsurface Imaging and collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and geoscientists
Requirements
What you’ll need- Successful track record developing and deploying complex state-of-the-art scientific instruments: about five years after a PhD, or correspondingly more after a BS or MS
- Experience deploying and supporting complex equipment to remote sites, including commissioning, validation, training, and monitoring
- Ability to serve as technical lead, project manager, product manager, and hands-on engineer
- Excellent communication skills in a highly interdisciplinary workplace
- Extensive experience executing end-to-end technical product development from concept through testing and deployment
- Extensive experience with physical measurement and data analysis systems
- Experience applying scientific knowledge to identify and prototype emerging technologies
- Experience with automation, systems integration, and data acquisition
- Mechanical or electrical design for scientific instruments and processing of measured signals
- Vendor selection and management
- Third-party contractor selection and management
- Ability and desire to take ownership of large projects
- Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively
- Valid passport and willingness to travel to Mingomba or exploration sites around the world
- Ability to work out of the Berkeley, CA office on any given day of the week
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally 20–30% of the time
- Helpful but not required: product management for scientific hardware; particle detectors, optics, and electronics; seismic, acoustic, or other geophysical instrumentation; mineral exploration and geology experience
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer
- Full-time exempt position
- 20–30% domestic and international travel, including visits to remote field sites