Associate Data Scientist
More than 6 months ago
Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia
Subscribe to job alerts
Get a weekly digest of the latest climate jobs from thousands of companies in your inbox.
Job Description
Associate Data Scientist
About the company:
KoBold Metals Zambia is a Zambian-led company exploring for the ore deposits that will become the next generation of new mines in Zambia.
KoBold Metals Zambia is the Zambian affiliate of KoBold Metals, a U.S.-based company exploring around the world for battery metals using proprietary AI to guide exploration decisions. Our business is discovering, defining, expanding, and developing mineral resources, and our objective is to achieve a step-change improvement in exploration success resulting in more tier 1 resources discovered faster, with fewer failures, and with far less exploration capital.
KoBold is privately held and its investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.
KoBold Metals Zambia is building a rapidly growing team of Zambian geologists, operators, and executives to identify, acquire, explore, and develop exploration opportunities and mineral resources drawing upon KoBold’s technology and the expertise of colleagues worldwide.
We are hiring an Associate Data Scientist to help accelerate our mission.
About the position
In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals by building a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our machine learning driven exploration program.
You will join an outstanding team of data scientists, geoscientists, and software engineers. You will be a core part of the exploration team, and your primary role will be to integrate data into TerraShed’s® databases using Python to perform QA/QC and exploratory data analysis. Further, you will add to KoBold’s codebase by contributing novel algorithms that accelerate the ingestion and transformation of myriad data sets. The datasets you curate will help other KoBold Data Scientists and Geologists leverage Machine Prospector® to solve challenging scientific problems, enabling the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
Responsibilities
The Associate Data Scientist will:
- Process and integrate data into well-structured, curated, proprietary databases (TerraShed®) using Python
- Explore and assess the quality of geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and other geospatial data from around the world
- Analyze data to identify potential measurement errors, missing data, inconsistencies with other datasets
- Work on an exploration project team and help Geologists discover pertinent geospatial insights from datasets
- Work with other Data Scientists to build predictive models for finding ore deposits
- Work with Software Engineers to improve data ingestion and data engineering infrastructure
- Support other Data Scientists and Exploration Geologists with ad hoc geospatial analyses
Qualifications
A great Associate Data Scientist candidate will have:
- At least 1 year of experience programming in Python (or other scripting languages such as R or MATLAB), with an understanding of IDEs, data types, functions, classes, and libraries
- Experience working with geospatial datasets, with an understanding of coordinate systems and geospatial file types (vector, raster, delimited text, etc.)
- Experience using Git and GitHub to version control, contribute code, and collaborate with others on a remote repository
- Familiarity with SQL
- Experience using geospatial visualization tools (example: QGIS)
- A master’s degree or higher (or a bachelor’s degree with work experience) in the geosciences, physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics
- Drive to self-teach programming fundamentals and learn KoBold’s code repositories
- Interest in a career in Data Science, Software Engineering, or GIS
- Enjoyment in getting the details right
We are committed to equal employment opportunities for all people.
This position is a full-time contract role.
At this time, we are only accepting applications from Zambian nationals.
Location: Lusaka, Zambia.
KoBold Metals
|
About this company
Founders:Jeff Jurinak, Josh Goldman, Kurt House, Kurt Zenz House
Founded date:2018
Revenue:US$ 100 - 500 million
Investors:Andreessen Horowitz, BHP, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Earthshot Ventures, Scott Belsky
Stage:Series B
Website:koboldmetals.com
KoBold Metals is pioneering Digital Exploration by applying statistical modeling, big data aggregation, and foundational ore-deposit science to materially improve the pace and efficacy of natural resources exploration. We are...read more
More Data analysis / Data science jobs in climate
1 Day ago
Belgrade, Serbia
1 Day ago
Santa Clara, United States
1 Day ago
Raleigh, United States
1 Day ago
Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, + 1 more location(s)
1 Day ago
Courbevoie, France
1 Day ago
Gurugram, India
1 Day ago
Gurugram, India
1 Day ago
Richland, United States
1 Day ago
Chicago, United States
1 Day ago
Juno Beach, United States
1 Day ago
Colorado, United States
1 Day ago
London, United Kingdom
2 days ago
United Kingdom, + 1 more location(s)
2 days ago
London, United Kingdom
2 days ago
San Jose, United States
2 days ago
Minneapolis, United States
2 days ago
Copenhagen, Denmark
Other jobs at KoBold Metals
6+ months ago
Canada, + 2 more location(s)
6+ months ago
Lusaka, Zambia
6+ months ago
6+ months ago
Lusaka, Zambia
6+ months ago
Zambia, + 1 more location(s)