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Staff Applied Scientist - Metalab

North America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop state-of-the-art instruments and data tools to guide mineral exploration programs, building models to predict ore-grade mineralization locations.

Role type

Staff Applied Scientist (Mineral Exploration & Sensor Systems)

Builds

Proprietary sensor hardware, data acquisition systems, and predictive models for critical battery metals discovery.

Domain

Mining & Mineral Exploration, Geophysics, Applied Physics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Sensor design and calibration, Scientific computing, Statistical modeling, Physics-based methods, Python, SQL, Cloud computing, Data visualization, Anomaly detection, Systems integration

Preferred skills

Remote sensing, Geospatial ML, Computer vision, Project management

Technologies

Python, SQL, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud platforms

Responsibilities

Design and deploy new mineral exploration data collection instruments; Build models to predict locations of compositional anomalies; Integrate diverse geoscientific data into proprietary systems; Create visualizations for model evaluation; Apply statistical and physics-based techniques to guide exploration decisions; Collaborate with geoscientists to design field programs.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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