Senior Infrastructure Engineer, KoBold Metals
$170-195k
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AI-powered mineral exploration company
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AI-powered mineral exploration company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-195k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create value by discovering new ore deposits and expanding existing resources.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role
- Strong scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Java or JavaScript/Node.js)
- Experience with IaC tools like Terraform and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
- Experience operating or administering JupyterHub in a multi-user environment
- Understanding of MLOps workflows, including model training, deployment, and related tooling
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills and a continuous improvement mindset
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and implement effective solutions
- Proven ability to thrive in dynamic and evolving environments, effectively navigating uncertainty and incomplete information
- Proven ability to grow expertise, influence & educate others
- Comfortable making informed decisions with limited data, adapting quickly to new circumstances, and maintaining focus on strategic objectives while driving clarity for the team
- Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. 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
- Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who are not infrastructure engineers. A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across the company
- 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
- Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
What the job involves
- In this role, you will partner with exploration and engineering teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure that makes it easier to turn data and models into real-world exploration insights
- You will improve observability, streamline MLOps workflows, and maintain shared tools like JupyterHub that enable faster experimentation and collaboration. Your work will help create a solid foundation for scientists and engineers to focus on discovery instead of infrastructure
- Design, build, and operate compute infrastructure that is both scalable and reliable to support critical services
- Work closely with engineering teams to embed observability, reliability, and security throughout the software development process
- Create and maintain automation for monitoring, deployments, and incident response to keep operations efficient and predictable
- Lead or support capacity planning, performance reviews, and system tuning to ensure stable and efficient systems
- Join the on-call rotation and take part in incident response, troubleshooting, and resolution
- Develop and refine monitoring and alerting to catch issues early and reduce downtime
- Establish and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity practices that protect the organization against failures
- Regularly review and improve our tools and processes to strengthen system visibility and reliability
- Investigate points of fragility in distributed systems and understand how complex systems behave under stress in order to improve resilience
- Continually learn about mineral exploration through reading, discussions with exploration team members, periodic rotation on an exploration team and time in the field with geologists
- This position is (Full-time Exempt, Part Time, Contract)
Our take
Supported by billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, KoBold Metals utilises AI and Cloud computing techniques to assess the composition of the subsurface in order to explore metals that are used in making batteries installed in electric vehicles and clean energy technologies.
KoBold is a force in its field with significant financial backing, not just from the aforementioned tycoons, but thanks to Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital funds. In 2019, this enabled KoBold to have funding available for four years, which, since then, has financed explorations at various locations, including Greenland.
As the climate crisis intensifies, the world has increasingly moved towards sustainability and hence demand for sustainable products like EVs has gone up, increasing the need for KoBold’s mineral exploration services. With recent approval for backing a new copper mine in Zambia, along with additional funding, the growing demand for sustainable resources positions KoBold for a promising future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$527m
SERIES C
Jun 2023
$195m
SERIES B
Total funding: $934.5m
Company HQ
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Leadership
Kurt House
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded a carbon Sequestration and enhanced oil recovery venture as well as a natural gas asset acquisition platform. They also worked in Private Equity and Corporate Consulting at Bain & Company and spent time as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.
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