KoBold Metals
Senior Applied Scientist (Onsite/Hybrid)
$130K–$190K
San Francisco Bay Area +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
North America - Experience
- About five years after a PhD, or correspondingly more after a BS or MS.
About the job
Develops and deploys mechanical and electrical subsurface imaging instruments, from concept through field deployment, to generate data for mineral exploration.
What you'll do
- Lead instrument development, system architecture, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and deployment at remote sites.
- Coordinate hardware and software teams, vendors, and contractors; integrate instrument data into KoBold’s data system.
- Help develop hardware engineering tools, processes, and practices.
What they ask for
- Track record developing and deploying complex scientific instruments, including experience deploying and supporting equipment at remote sites.
- Extensive experience in end-to-end product development, physical measurement and data analysis, automation, systems integration, data acquisition, and mechanical or electrical design for scientific instruments.
- Valid passport and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, including to remote field sites.
- Ability to work from the Berkeley, CA office on any given day of the week.
Nice to have
- Product management for scientific hardware.
- Experience with particle detectors, optics, electronics, or seismic, acoustic, or other geophysical instrumentation.
Pay
$130,000 - $190,000 USD base salary
Tools
machine learning, muon, high energy physics detectors, seismometers
AI focus
Develops subsurface imaging hardware that produces datasets used by machine learning models for mineral exploration.
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