KoBold Metals

KoBold Metals

Mechatronics Engineer (Onsite/Hybrid)

San Francisco Bay Area · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$190kDetected 1 day ago
Machine LearningData AnalysisProject ManagementMechanical DesignHardware DesignResearchCommunication

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • This role is ideal for a mechanical engineer who thrives at the intersection of science, engineering, and data and is excited about bringing new technology to life.
  • You will be a key member of a hardware development team and contributor to various novel hardware projects.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate with and orchestrate internal and external resources across hardware and software engineering to deliver.
  • Lead system architecture definition, navigating technical tradeoffs through rigorous research and analysis and balancing cost, complexity, and timeline.
  • Collaborate with KoBold's data systems and exploration teams to integrate the new data stream into KoBold's proprietary data system and ensure usability for exploration projects.
  • Build a deep understanding of mineral exploration science and operations to ensure the system and data generated meet user needs and field requirements.
  • Build partnerships, source, and contract with service providers and vendors to develop hardware solutions that solve KoBold exploration needs.
  • Create effective product plans and mechanical, mechatronic and automation designs - from concept through prototyping and production.
  • Contribute engineering expertise, analysis, and design to various hardware projects across Kobold.
  • Help develop Kobold's hardware development tools and processes.
  • 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

  • Technical skills, including extensive experience with:
  • A great Hardware Development Engineer candidate will have:
  • A successful track record of developing and deploying complex state-of-the-art automated scientific equipment.
  • Experience deploying and supporting complex equipment to remote sites including commissioning, validation, training and monitoring.
  • The ability to simultaneously and gracefully wear many hats including technical lead, project manager, product manager, and hands on in-the-weeds engineer.
  • Excellent communication skills for a highly interdisciplinary workplace.
  • Work practices and motivation:

Skills

  • Leading teams to execute end-to-end technical product development from concept through testing and deployment.
  • Physical measurement and data analysis systems.
  • Applying scientific knowledge to identify and prototype emerging technologies.
  • Automation, systems integration and data acquisition.
  • Mechanical engineering, CAD, analysis, prototyping.
  • Vendor selection and management.
  • 3rd party contractor selection and management.
  • Ability and desire to take ownership and responsibility of large projects.
  • Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively.
  • Solutions oriented, positive, and collaborative.

Compensation

  • US pay reflects a different market with different competitive dynamics, so we benchmark roles against the local market rather than converting the listed figure.
  • Compensation ranges are listed in USD.
  • Travel for this role typically does not exceed 2 trips per year.

Benefits

  • The Mingomba team brings together mine and processing engineers, geologists, data scientists, software engineers, and community, health & safety, construction, and operations specialists.
  • Enjoys constantly learning such that you are driving insights through using our tools in exploration and willing to work directly with geologists in the field.
  • Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities.

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.

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