About the company

The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to make discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-find, near-surface deposits have largely been found, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the manual techniques of yesteryear – even as demand accelerates for copper, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly lead exploration programs with our renowned exploration geologists.

KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and found one of the best copper deposits ever discovered: the copper is far more concentrated than the global average of copper mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful revenue for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other projects, each of which has the potential for another high-quality discovery.

KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi.

About the position

KoBold is looking for highly motivated Geologist’s who will be part of our multidisciplinary exploration team, on a short term contract. In this role, you will be part of the core team responsible for performing geologic analysis and conducting field work on our properties. Working in tandem with one of KoBold’s Sr. Exploration Geologists, these roles will also work closely with our team of data scientists and software engineers to support development of our internal software tools and to evaluate prospects generated by our proprietary system.

These roles are short duration contracts, 12 months, with monthly field work rotation of 3 weeks on and 1 week off.

Responsibilities

The Geologist will:

• Compile and evaluate various datasets at regional to prospect scales and conduct assessments of exploration potential
• Review and evaluate geoscience data obtained whilst in the field
• Perform a range of geological analyses and work collaboratively with data scientists
• Contribute to the execution of field programs

Qualifications

A great Geologist candidate will have:

• An advanced degree in geoscience
• A minimum of 2 years of field experience is strongly preferred
• An excellent understanding of geologic fundamentals, ore systems, and mineral exploration
• Experience evaluating ore-deposit prospectivity using field techniques and geospatial software, and an interest in doing both field and desktop work
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity

It is preferred but not required to have:

• Proficiency in QGIS, and Leapfrog
• Experience with magmatic sulfide, sediment-hosted copper systems, or lithium pegmatite systems. 

We are committed to equal employment opportunities for all people.

Location: Namibia, at this time KoBold is only accepting applications from Namibian citizens.