KoBold Metals
Manufacturing Engineer (Onsite/Hybrid)
San Francisco Bay Area · Mid · Part-time
No sponsorship$110k-$180kDetected 2 days ago
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About the role
- The manufacturing engineer will be responsible for turning prototype level hardware into reliably built, documented, and deployed systems.
- This is a many-hatted role, taking on more than routine manufacturing engineering.
- They will also establish the documentation and quality practices that let ATG scale from one-off prototypes to repeatable production.
Responsibilities
- Build Management
- Plan and manage hardware builds, from prototype through low-volume production-scheduling, kitting, and coordinating across engineering and vendors.
- Track build status, bills of materials, and part availability to keep builds on schedule.
- Identify and resolve manufacturing bottlenecks and design-for-manufacturability issues in coordination with design engineers.
- Own the day-to-day operation of the lab and shop floor-layout, equipment, tooling, consumables, and safety.
- Maintain and calibrate shop and test equipment
- manage service and maintenance schedules.
- Own the receiving process-inspection, verification against POs, and intake into inventory.
- These minerals are needed to build electric infrastructure, vehicles, data centers, and electronics.
- We are developing Mingomba with the same technical rigor that we apply to exploration.
Requirements
- Experience with sourcing and vendor development
- Experience with inventory and materials management
- Working knowledge of BOM management, revision control, and documentation control practices.
- Proficiency with standard business tools (Google Docs/Sheets)
- Ability to work in an office in Berkeley on a daily basis.
- Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI) in a hardware startup
- Experience implementing or administering an MRP/PLM system.
- Experience with build, test and calibration of camera and/or sensing systems.
- Familiarity with quality management systems and inspection processes.
- Experience with field-deployed hardware or instrumentation.
- Required
- Degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering (or equivalent education/experience).
- 3-5 years in manufacturing, production, or hardware build engineering, ideally in a prototype-to-low-volume environment.
- Hands-on experience managing hardware builds and shop/lab environments.
- Strong project management skills-able to track multiple concurrent builds, deadlines, and stakeholders without dropping balls.
- Comfortable working directly with design engineers and translating between design intent and buildable, documented processes.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and self-directed in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Ability to work in an office in Berkeley on a daily basis. Able to travel up to 5-10%.
- Preferred
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $110,000-$180,000, plus equity and benefits including 401k matching.
Benefits
- The Mingomba team brings together mine and processing engineers, geologists, data scientists, software engineers, and community, health & safety, construction, and operations specialists.
Company info
- In the coming decades, demand for critical minerals such as copper, lithium, and cobalt will continue to grow.
- 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 multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, and geologists work together to build data systems, design new sensors, and establish industry-leading workflows to develop and test subsurface predictions on our exploration projects.
- Our first discovery, Mingomba, is a high-grade copper deposit in Zambia, found after spending materially less than industry average.
- KoBold runs exploration programs in eight countries, all with the potential for another discovery.
- KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T.
- Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and strategic natural resources companies BHP and Mitsubishi.
Visa & Work Authorization
- All candidates must be legally authorized to work in one of the following countries: United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Finland, Sweden, or Botswana.
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