Data Engineer – Geospatial (All Levels)

over 3 years ago
Full time role
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KoBold Metals is pioneering Digital Exploration by applying statistical modeling, big data aggregation, and foundational ore-deposit science to materially improve ...

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Job Description

About the position

In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals, and you will help build the worldwide 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. Your role will be a key link between the way that data scientists and geologists interact with our data system. 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.

Responsibilities

The Geospatial Data Engineer will:

  • Design aspects of the TerraShed™ data system to ingest, store, and quickly process and access a wide variety of geoscience data
  • Integrate diverse and messy geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data from around the world into a well-structured proprietary data system
  • Create tools for ingesting unstructured datasets and extracting key features
  • Develop methods and tools to enable data scientists and geoscientists to rapidly view and interrogate both model results and underlying data
Qualifications

A great Geospatial Data Engineer candidate will have skills and knowledge that include:

  • Proficiency in Python
  • Proficiency in Postgres/PostGIS
  • Familiarity with open-source libraries for manipulating (e.g., GDAL, ogr), visualizing (e.g., leaflet), and serving (e.g., WMS) geospatial data
  • Familiarity with desktop software used for geospatial visualization and analysis and experience integrating these tools with other data systems, e.g., through custom plugins
  • Familiarity with how geologists use 2D and 3D geospatial data, including both analyses based on 2D GIS projects as well as 3D modeling
  • Experience with setting up and deploying systems on AWS

A great Geospatial Data Engineer candidate will also be:

  • 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 software people
  • 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
  • Comfortable with a fast-changing work environment
  • Careful to get the details right

It is helpful but not required to have:

  • A bachelor’s degree or higher in geoscience, other physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics
  • Experience with Flask or similar web frameworks

Level: KoBold is willing to consider candidates at the Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or Staff Data Engineer/Architect levels, with commensurate compensation. This is an individual contributor role. This position requires a minimum of 2 years of relevant full-time professional work experience; recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates who have previously worked in remote roles should describe this in their cover letters. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

Interested applicants should contact info@koboldmetals.com.

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