Marianaminerals

Marianaminerals

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Ann Arbor, MI · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringMLOpsSupply ChainRoboticsControls5G/LTELeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • We're not a software company selling tools to mining operators.
  • Today, we're producing battery-grade lithium salts from real oil and gas wastewater in our facilities.
  • Our first commercial-scale lithium production facility, Lithium One, is targeting initial production in Q1 of 2027.

Responsibilities

  • Own the autonomy roadmap across multiple circuits and facilities-deciding which unit operations to automate next and where investment in simulation and modeling pays off.
  • Set the standards for our simulators and our modeling stack, so the whole team builds controllers that are reproducible, safe, and grounded in real project economics.
  • Partner with leadership on major capital and operational decisions, translating techno-economic and process insight into strategy.
  • Multiply the team through technical direction, design review, and mentoring of engineers at every level-and partner with our data engineering leaders to shape the data platform the autonomy roadmap requires. You own the modeling and the on-plant outcome
  • they own the backbone.
  • Multiply the team through technical direction, design review, and mentoring of engineers at every level-and partner with our data engineering leaders to shape the data platform the autonomy roadmap requires.
  • You own the modeling and the on-plant outcome; they own the backbone.

Requirements

  • When you ship here, you can literally watch the physics change.
  • A track record of setting technical direction for ML systems in physical, industrial, robotics, or control domains.
  • 8+ years in machine learning engineering (or an exceptional 6+ with demonstrated org-level technical leadership), including production ML or control systems that ran in the real world.
  • Deep expertise in reinforcement learning under non-stationarity, simulation and digital twins, and closing sim-to-real gaps-plus the judgment to know when a simpler approach wins.

Company info

  • We are a mining company that builds software.

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