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KoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
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Senior Drilling Engineer
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Design and Plan • Lead hole design, drilling method selection, and rig specification for complex exploration drilling programs including diamond core, sonic, reverse circulation and air core programs • Develop comprehensive drilling execution plans: scope, cost estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and procurement strategies • Complete detailed engineering design to inform the development of drilling programs for various hole types including casing design, torque and drag analysis, directional drilling design, mud system design. • Complete detailed root cause analysis on all downhole failures with a particular focus on rod string and thread failures, stuck in hole, wireline failures and the correlation to dogleg severity, hole trajectory, and adherence to good drilling practices. • Collaborate with KoBold’s science teams to translate exploration hypotheses and data collection objectives into executable drilling programs and AFEs • Lead procurement processes from RFP development through bid evaluation and contractor selection, including assessment of contractor safety management plans and technical capability • Contribute to data collection planning during all phases of the Exploration Project Lifecycle • Generate creative drilling solutions that improve efficiency, data quality, or safety beyond conventional approaches • Mentor 2 junior drilling engineers to develop skills related to all aspects noted above • Execute • Provide technical oversight of drilling operations across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring adherence to hole design, safety standards, and data collection objectives • Use advanced hole design and analysis software tools to conduct analyses and develop recommendations during active programs • Manage and direct contractor performance, providing technical guidance, feedback, and improvement recommendations • Track and forecast production rates, costs, and resource requirements; synthesize complex operational scenarios with benefits and risks for leadership review • Ensure drilling safety and value engineering principles are applied throughout program execution • Identify and resolve complex multivariable drilling problems using independent judgment and technical expertise • Mentor 2 junior drilling engineers to develop skills related to all aspects noted above • Close • Lead post-program reviews and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement in drilling operations • Contribute to the development of KoBold’s drilling engineering standards and best practices • Mentor 2 junior drilling engineers to develop skills related to all aspects noted above • Compliance and Stakeholder Engagement • Ensure drilling programs comply with applicable regulatory, environmental, and permitting requirements across multiple jurisdictions • Ensure execution is conducted within applicable permitting processes, land access agreements, community relations obligations, third-party agreements, and any joint venture requirements • Represent KoBold to drilling contractors, regulatory bodies, and external partners with professionalism and sound judgment
Field Operations Lead
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Lead planning of complex exploration projects and moderate-scale development programs in North America, including drilling campaigns, electromagnetic surveys, and reconnaissance programs • Lead 1–3 concurrent projects of varying size, complexity, and jurisdiction, with accountability for planning and execution • Lead procurement strategies: contractor selection, bid evaluation, benchmarking, and contract administration for North America-based programs • Develop detailed project-level risk and hazard identification, risk assessments, mitigation plans, and critical control implementation, with particular attention to seasonal and terrain-specific construction conditions across North American operating environments • Lead project kick-offs with integrated teams and contractors, covering scope, execution strategy, and risk management • Generate creative field operations scenarios outside conventional boundaries that lead to efficient programs • Lead end-to-end execution of assigned projects from mobilization through demobilization and closure • Provide strong leadership during changing field conditions, including remote, seasonal, and extreme weather events across diverse North American geographies • Track and forecast production rates, spend profiles, and resource requirements • Manage and direct all field activities: lead contractor performance evaluation, feedback, and improvement • Maintain daily contact with and monitor the status of KoBold personnel and contractors while in the field; maintain close communication with the Project Geologist, Project Data Scientist, and the Senior Project Planner • Lead site remediation and rehabilitation activities per applicable federal, state/provincial, and local regulatory standards • Lead contractor performance reviews and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement • Lead execution within regulatory compliance, monitoring, and reporting in accordance with applicable US federal and state or Canadian federal and provincial mining, environmental, and land use legislation, and the practices of our joint venture partners • Ensure execution is done within applicable permitting processes, land access agreements, community relations, third-party agreements, and any joint venture requirements • With leadership direction and support, represent KoBold Metals with local North American stakeholders, including communities, landowners, municipal authorities, Indigenous groups, and environmental bodies
Field Operations Lead, Finland
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
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 Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi. About the Role In the role of Field Operations Lead, you will plan and execute our field activities in Finland to meet our business objectives without causing harm to our people, our contractors and partners, or the communities and environments where we operate. You will report to our Field Operations Director North America & Europe and other members of the operations and exploration team. Your primary responsibility will be to serve as the leader of field operations for 1–3 projects per year across Finland and potentially other Nordic or European jurisdictions. Responsibilities Plan - Lead planning of complex exploration projects and moderate-scale development programs in Finland, including drilling campaigns, electromagnetic surveys, and reconnaissance programs - Lead 1–3 concurrent projects of varying size, complexity, and jurisdiction, with accountability for planning and execution - Lead procurement strategies: contractor selection, bid evaluation, benchmarking, and contract administration for Finland-based programs - Develop detailed project-level risk and hazard identification, risk assessments, mitigation plans, and critical control implementation, with particular attention to Finnish winter construction conditions - Lead project kick-offs with integrated teams and contractors, covering scope, execution strategy, and risk management - Contribute collaboratively to data collection planning during Phase 4a of the Exploration Project Lifecycle - Generate creative field operations scenarios outside conventional boundaries that lead to efficient programs Execute - Lead end-to-end execution of assigned projects from mobilization through demobilization and closure - Provide strong leadership during changing field conditions, including Arctic and sub-Arctic weather events - Track and forecast production rates, spend profiles, and resource requirements - Manage and direct all field activities: lead contractor performance evaluation, feedback, and improvement - Maintain daily contact with and monitor the status of KoBold personnel and contractors while in the field; maintain close communication with the Project Geologist, Project Data Scientist, and the Senior Project Planner Close - Lead site remediation and rehabilitation activities per Finnish regulatory standards - Lead contractor performance reviews and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement Compliance and Stakeholder Engagement - Lead execution within regulatory compliance, monitoring, and reporting in accordance with Finnish mining and environmental legislation (including the Mining Act 621/2011 and Environmental Protection Act), EU regulations, and the practices of our joint venture partners - Ensure execution is done within Finnish permitting processes, land access agreements, community relations, third-party agreements, and any joint venture requirements - With leadership direction and support, represent KoBold Metals with local Finnish stakeholders, including communities, landowners, municipal authorities, and environmental bodies Process Improvement and Mentoring - Create ways of working that allow us to continue to work more effectively and to be nimble so that we can support machine-learning-driven dynamic field programs, where we adapt our plan based on the data we collect at each stage - Mentor Field Operations Supervisors: ensure field operations follows KoBold’s systems, practices, and leading industry standards Qualifications Required - At least 12 years of experience conducting field operations in mineral exploration and mining, oil and gas, or a related industry, with demonstrated progression in complexity and responsibility - Advanced knowledge of construction methodology, including winter and frozen-ground construction (tracks, pads, ice roads) relevant to Nordic operating environments - Advanced understanding of helicopter-supported exploration, including utilization optimization and emergency response considerations - Strong understanding of procurement processes: RFP development, bid evaluation, and contract administration - Strong understanding of rehabilitation and closure planning - Demonstrated commitment to health and safety standards, including incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation and verification - Strong conceptual knowledge of all HSE, Land and Permitting, Legal, and Business Development systems as applied to exploration projects - Ability to manage and supervise KoBold staff and contractors on all aspects of field activities, including complex and higher-risk field programs - Ability to design complex field programs including scope, cost estimates, risk assessments, procurement, and project execution plans - Ability to prepare complete and accurate deliverables based on the Exploration Project Lifecycle and synthesize findings for integrated project teams and leadership - Ability to work in remote and isolated locations for extended periods of time, including Finnish Lapland and other Nordic environments - A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision - Must speak, read, and write in Finnish and English; additional language skills are of benefit - Valid First Aid Certification (Level 3 or Wilderness First Aid preferred) Preferred - Recognized internally or externally as a subject matter expert in field operations across at least two operation types (e.g., drilling, EM surveys, civil works) - Material understanding of data science products (e.g., catchment analyses) and their appropriate uses in exploration - Experience with Finnish and/or Nordic regulatory frameworks governing exploration operations - Experience working on projects with dedicated exploration teams including both Geologists and Data Scientists, demonstrating sustained partnership and effective interdisciplinary collaboration - Familiarity with project management principles and managing projects remotely across multiple jurisdictions - Experience with logistics tied to complex remote operations in cold-weather environments, including helicopter, weather, camps, chartered flights, and drilling operations - Swedish or other Nordic language skills are an asset What We Value - Sustained partnership with exploration teams, including both Geologists and Data Scientists, on one or more exploration projects - Effective communication with team members across Geology, Data Science, HSE, Aviation, Legal, Community Relations, and Land and Permitting - Perpetuating KoBold’s ethical standards through your own actions and in communicating with others - Leading constructive field operational dialogue with colleagues; offering ideas freely and being willing to be wrong - Receiving constructive and critical feedback well and providing constructive input and guidance to others - Recognizing and elevating the team’s contributions, both in the field and to leadership, reinforcing a culture where strong work is visible and valued - Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eagerness to pitch in where needed KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status. This position is a Full-time Contract role. Location: KoBold is a remote-first workplace. All candidates should be legally authorized to work in one of the following countries: Finland or Sweden.
Health Safety and Environment Lead
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
HSE Lead, Global 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 antiquated manual mining techniques– 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 Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi. About The Position: The HSE Lead, Global will play a critical role in supporting KoBold Metals' commitment to operational excellence and zero harm across its international portfolio. This role will build and drive the implementation of health, safety, and environmental initiatives across KoBold's exploration and development locations worldwide — spanning Africa, North America, Europe, and beyond — by developing programs and policies, driving safety performance to our frontline workers, developing our HSE capability in operations, and facilitating compliance to HSE regulations. Additional responsibilities will include: - Implement KoBold's HSE strategy across global operations, aligning programs with corporate sustainability and zero-harm objectives across diverse jurisdictional and operational contexts - Coach and train operations and technical staff to take ownership of HSE for their projects, and support the safe execution of exploration campaigns across the globe - Coach and equip operations and technical staff to independently lead incident investigations and near-miss analyses using KoBold's standard methodology - Develop and maintain the tools, templates, and tracking systems that enable teams to own corrective action closure and share lessons learned across the portfolio, with the HSE Lead providing technical review and support - Champion a strong safety culture through visible leadership, engagement, and communication at all organizational levels and across geographically dispersed teams - Provide technical HSE expertise and guidance to operations and technical leaders, supervisors, and front-line employees across all active programs and project locations - Develop, review, and implement HSE policies, standards, and procedures consistent with applicable local regulations and KoBold's global standards; ensure coherence across jurisdictions while accommodating regional compliance requirements - Support root cause analysis investigations for incidents and near misses across the portfolio; ensure corrective actions are documented, tracked, and closed - Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in HSE management systems and operational practices globally - Collect, manage, and analyze HSE performance data to track progress against targets and identify trends across the portfolio; prepare and submit regular performance reports to leadership - Develop and deliver HSE training for employees, contractors, and supervisors across multiple jurisdictions, including orientation, hazard recognition, emergency response, and leadership safety training - Conduct regular site audits, inspections, and risk assessments across active programs to ensure adherence to applicable HSE policies and regulatory requirements - Monitor and report on environmental performance, including waste management, water usage, and emissions; support initiatives that minimize environmental impact and advance KoBold's sustainability commitments - Partner with Field Operations,Technical teams, Land & Permitting, and Legal teams to integrate HSE requirements into program planning and execution from inception through closeout Qualifications - Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field. - Master’s degree in related field preferred. - Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Health Safety and Environment (HSE) role with demonstrated success in driving safety culture. - Experience maintaining or implementing HSE software systems such as DATS, Intelex, Cority, etc. - Direct experience in mining or oil & gas exploration and production. - Expert knowledge of global HSE legislation, mining standards, and best practices. - Motivates the team to work together in the most efficient manner. - Mitigates team conflict and communication problems. - Excellent motivational and people skills. - Excellent communication skills (written and verbal). - Excellent computer skills. - Strong people leadership skills. - Medically fit to perform moderately strenuous activity. KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status. Location: Remote, ideally North America Contract: Indefinite
Data Scientist
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Build predictive models and apply scientific computing methods • Create a worldwide dataset for exploration • Work closely with geoscientists for geologic predictions • Design field programs to collect data • Develop data tools for scientific problem-solving
Global Head of IT
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
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 Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi. About the Role KoBold’s IT function supports a globally distributed team of ~280 geoscientists, data scientists, and engineers working across North America, Zambia, the DRC, and field exploration sites around the world. As we scale, our IT needs are evolving rapidly—from reactive, break/fix helpdesk support toward proactive, automated IT operations that work seamlessly across geographies, including remote field sites with limited connectivity. In this role, you will own the full operational scope of Global IT. That means endpoint management, software procurement and renewals, identity and access administration, license optimization, vendor management, employee onboarding and offboarding, hardware lifecycle management, and IT training. You’ll lead a team of IT support staff, set technical direction, manage the annual software budget, and be the person who makes sure nothing falls through the cracks—renewals don’t expire, new hires have everything they need on day one, and the fleet is healthy and compliant. This is a player-coach role. You’ll spend meaningful time building and configuring systems yourself—writing Okta provisioning workflows, managing Jamf and Intune policies in Terraform, scripting automation for repetitive work—while also coaching and mentoring your direct reports, setting priorities, and raising the bar for what IT operations looks like at a fast-moving exploration technology company. Responsibilities Endpoint Management & Fleet Operations - Own the Global IT roadmap, setting technical direction for endpoint management, fleet automation, and IT operations across all KoBold offices and field sites in 10+ countries - Design and implement zero-touch provisioning and automated reimaging workflows for macOS (Jamf) and Windows (Intune) endpoints - Build endpoint monitoring, alerting, and fleet health dashboards to shift IT from reactive to proactive support - Drive device lifecycle management including EoL/EoS tracking, hardware refresh planning, and inventory management across Jamf, Intune, CrowdStrike, and related tooling - Create self-service application deployment and access workflows to reduce helpdesk volume and empower employees - Apply DevOps principles to IT operations: configuration-as-code (e.g. managing Intune policies via Terraform), infrastructure automation, version-controlled policies, and repeatable processes - Own internet reliability and network performance at all global remote KoBold sites Software Procurement, Licensing & Vendor Management - Manage the full software procurement lifecycle: new purchases, renewals, expansions, and cancellations, ensuring user access is never disrupted by lapsed licenses or last-minute renewals - Own and drive execution of the annual software budget, including process improvements year-over-year and proactive renewal pipeline visibility for legal and finance - Optimize license utilization across the SaaS portfolio—track usage, right-size seat counts, consolidate redundant tools, and negotiate pricing with vendors - Coordinate with legal on contract review, working within the existing procurement process to move quickly on low-risk purchases while ensuring appropriate review for larger spend - Onboard new SaaS applications with proper Okta integration (SSO, SCIM) before launch, and manage decommissioning of deprecated tools Identity, Access & Employee Lifecycle - Own Okta administration including SSO integrations, SCIM provisioning, group management, access request workflows, and lifecycle automation - Manage Google Workspace administration, including license management, security settings, and break-glass super-admin governance - Build automation for minimal-touch employee onboarding and offboarding—ensuring new hires are fully provisioned on day one and departing employees are cleanly deprovisioned - Support AI tooling rollout (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and related tools) across the endpoint fleet, including deployment, configuration, and employee training Team Leadership & Training - Supervise and mentor IT support staff, providing technical coaching, priority-setting, performance management, and career development - Develop and maintain IT training programs for new hires and ongoing employee enablement, including documentation, video walkthroughs, and live onboarding sessions - Provide helpdesk backup on high-volume days, modeling the standard of responsiveness and quality you expect from the team Cross-Functional Collaboration - Learn about mineral exploration by working closely with exploration teams, including time in the field in remote operations - Collaborate with infrastructure engineering and security teams on cross-cutting initiatives including observability, access controls, endpoint security posture, and incident response - Partner across the company to contribute to specification, vendor selection, and change management on new software requests - Partner with finance on budget tracking, invoice approvals, and AFE submissions for software spend - Work with legal to streamline the contract review pipeline, maintain lead times on renewals, and advocate for tiered review processes that match risk to effort - Coordinate digitization efforts across the globe, ensuring consistent standards and tooling for converting physical records to digital archives at field and office sites Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in IT engineering, IT management, or a similar role combining hands-on technical depth with operational ownership - Strong experience with MDM platforms, particularly Jamf (macOS) and Microsoft Intune (Windows), including policy configuration, automated enrollment, compliance enforcement, and ideally infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform) - Experience with identity and access management platforms (Okta strongly preferred), including SSO integration, SCIM provisioning, access request workflows, and lifecycle automation - Experience managing software procurement and renewals: specification and change management, vendor negotiation, license optimization, renewal pipeline management, and budget ownership - Hands-on experience building zero-touch provisioning, automated reimaging, and self-service deployment workflows - Experience with endpoint monitoring and fleet management at scale, including remote/distributed environments - People management or technical lead experience: demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and grow IT staff while maintaining high execution standards - Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for building automation and tooling - Intellectually curious; eager to learn about the substance of mineral exploration and exploration technology - Excellent communication and collaboration skills—comfortable working across disciplines with engineers, scientists, legal, finance, and leadership in a remote-first environment - Proven ability to take ownership: you build the roadmap, do the research, implement the solution, write the documentation, and communicate the rollout - Strong prioritization instincts—you can look at a long list of IT initiatives and distinguish what actually matters from nice-to-haves, and you can explain why - Comfort with ambiguity and a dynamic work environment; eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities at a fast-growing company - Experience supporting global teams across multiple time zones is a strong plus - Familiarity with Google Workspace administration, CrowdStrike, Datadog, or similar tooling is a plus 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, disability, or veteran status. This position is full-time, exempt. The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $150,000 - $180,000 USD, plus equity and benefits including 401k matching. Location: KoBold is a remote-first workplace. We are open to candidates currently residing anywhere in the United States or Canada. CST or EST time zone preferred. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.
Director of Mineral Processing
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Own the process flowsheet design for Mingomba and future KoBold projects, from scoping through feasibility. • Work hands on and with your team to define and manage metallurgical testwork programs: comminution characterization, flotation optimization, hydrometallurgical evaluation, and pilot-scale campaigns. • Evaluate and recommend processing routes including froth flotation to concentrate, SX-EW, pressure oxidation, and smelter/refinery toll arrangements. Quantify the economic trade-offs of each. • Develop process design criteria, mass and water balances, and equipment specifications for feasibility-level engineering. • Lead the assessment of tailings characteristics, reprocessing potential, and environmental implications of process residues. • Build and maintain a geometallurgical framework that links ore variability (mineralogy, texture, grade distribution) to processing performance with first principles and statistical models. • Collaborate with geologists and data scientists to integrate geometallurgical statistics into resource models, mine schedules, and economic analyses. • Define sampling protocols for metallurgical characterization of drill core and ensure adequate coverage of ore variability. • Ensure mineral processing assumptions are reflected in techno-economic models including TC/RC structures, payable metal calculations, and concentrate penalty elements. • Build, lead, and mentor a mineral processing function within KoBold’s Advanced Technology Group. • Direct and manage relationships with metallurgical consultants, contract laboratories, and engineering firms. • Serve as one of KoBold’s internal experts and external representatives on mineral processing for investor presentations, partner discussions, and technical reviews. • Contribute to feasibility study management and preparation of technical reports (NI 43-101 / JORC-compliant as applicable). • Identify and evaluate emerging processing technologies relevant to KoBold’s target commodities (copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt) along with the existing team. • Work with mine engineers to optimize cut-off grade strategies and ore scheduling based on processing constraints. • Partner with KoBold’s data science team to apply machine learning and statistical methods to metallurgical datasets. • Coordinate with business development and commercial teams on offtake strategy, concentrate marketing, and smelter negotiations. • Support environmental and permitting workstreams with process-related inputs on water use, reagent consumption, emissions, and waste management.
Commercial & Scientific Analyst
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Aggregate existing research and/or conduct original research to build forecasts and models related to commodity markets, KoBold operations, mine development, and more • Work with the Commercial Analytics and Financial Planning & Analysis team to answer strategic questions from leadership • Prepare materials for the Board of Directors and investors or partners • Use a first-principles approach in collaboration with various KoBold functions to help make decisions or improve operational efficiency • Conduct analytics for critical workstreams in mine development and exploration • Build and maintain financial models assessing project economics • Support others on the Commercial Analytics team on various analytical assignments
Data Scientist – Staff or Senior
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Help develop KoBold’s proprietary software exploration tools. • Find and curate geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and geographic data and integrate it into KoBold’s proprietary data system. • Build models to make statistically valid predictions about the locations of compositional anomalies within the Earth’s crust. • Create effective visualizations for evaluating model performance and enabling rapid interaction with the underlying data and key features. • Develop and apply data processing, statistical, and physics-based techniques to geoscientific data — from computer vision to geophysical inversions — and use the results to guide our targeting efforts and inform our acquisition and exploration decisions. • Present to and collaborate with our external partners and stakeholders.
Software Engineer, All Levels
KoBold MetalsKoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
• Deep engagement with exploration geologists and data scientists, continual learning about mineral exploration, and tailoring technology development to the needs of exploration project scientists • Building data pipelines and tooling for deriving advanced human and machine insights from exploration data, often leading a small group of software engineers to successful delivery • Developing expertise in KoBold’s Data Systems and deeply understanding how they impact exploration • End-to-end ownership of projects from design to implementation and testing to continued engagement with colleagues on exploration teams using your solutions • Responding well to design and code feedback, also providing feedback to teammates • Operationally managing the team’s services and assisting scientific colleagues with our tooling
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