Infrastructure Engineer, KoBold Metals

• Expertise in at least one programming language (KoBold’s primary language is Python, but a candidate with expertise in, e.g., Go or Ruby will still be competitive)
• Experience designing and deploying systems in the cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure and defining those systems with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing monitoring and alerting systems against well-defined service metrics (e.g. SLO, SLA)
• Experience building systems to develop, deploy, and instrument machine learning models, particularly in Kubeflow or similar frameworks
• Prior responsibility for planning and implementing information security measures
• Motivated to build and maintain systems that meet challenging infrastructure requirements and to work closely with engineering colleagues on a broad set of infrastructure problems
• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools whenever needed
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts who aren’t solely software engineers
• Keen not just to build products, but to figure out what product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses
• Focused on making decisions about risk based on practical considerations and a deep understanding of the company’s business, rather than on compliance checklists or blind adherence to a preferred set of practices
• A clear technical writer, reflecting a deep understanding of what guidance users/colleagues need to effectively and efficiently use the systems you build
• Careful to get the details right
• This is an individual contributor role. This position requires a minimum of 2-3 years of relevant full-time professional work experience; recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive

Desirable

• In this role, you will architect and deploy software to accelerate discovery of battery metals and to help construct the global geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program
• You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists
• You will be responsible for helping us build reliable and secure infrastructure while contributing broadly across our technology stack
• Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles
• As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up
• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary data system, TerraShed®, and modeling software, Machine Prospector®
• Design and implement infrastructure for distributed parallel ML and scientific computing
• Design, implement, and maintain security protocols for highly proprietary data
• Design components of the data system to ingest, store, process, and access a large volume and wide variety of geoscience data for both predictive modeling and visualization