# Senior Research Engineer (Onsite/Hybrid)

**Company**: KoBold Metals
**Location**: San Francisco Bay Area
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,000 - $190,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Research Engineer to join our Advanced Technology Group. As a Senior Research Engineer, you will drive the design, development, and deployment of new subsurface imaging hardware, focusing on muon projects with high-energy physics detectors and seismic measurements with seismometers.

Responsibilities:

- Own the technical development of mechanical and electrical systems of novel sensing and imaging instruments from concept and prototype to deployment in remote field sites.

- Coordinate with internal and external resources across hardware and software engineering to deliver projects.

- Contribute to system architecture definition, navigating technical trade-offs through rigorous research and analysis, and balancing cost, complexity, and timeline.

- Collaborate with data systems and exploration teams to integrate new data streams into KoBold's proprietary data system and ensure usability for exploration projects.

- Build a deep understanding of mineral exploration science and operations to ensure the system and data generated meet user needs and field requirements.

- Build partnerships, source, and contract with service providers and vendors to develop hardware solutions that solve KoBold exploration needs.

- Create effective product plans and mechanical and electrical designs from concept through prototyping and production.

- Contribute engineering expertise, analysis, and design to various hardware projects across KoBold.

- Help develop KoBold's hardware development tools and processes.

Qualifications:

- A successful track record of developing and deploying complex state-of-the-art scientific instruments.

- Experience deploying and supporting complex equipment to remote sites, including commissioning, validation, training, and monitoring.

- The ability to simultaneously and gracefully wear many hats, including technical lead, project manager, product manager, and hands-on engineer.

- Excellent communication skills for a highly interdisciplinary workplace.

- Extensive experience with executing end-to-end technical product development from concept through testing and deployment.

- Physical measurement and data analysis systems.

- Applying scientific knowledge to identify and prototype emerging technologies.

- Automation, systems integration, and data acquisition.

- Mechanical or electrical design for scientific instruments, and processing of measured signals.

- Vendor selection and management.

- Third-party contractor selection and management.

Work practices and motivation:

- Ability and desire to take ownership and responsibility for large projects.

- Enjoys constantly learning to drive insights and innovations.

- Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who aren't hardware experts.

- Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities.

- Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively.

- Solutions-oriented, positive, and collaborative.

- Valid passport and willingness to travel to observe our work at Mingomba or at an exploration site around the world.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical design
- electrical design
- scientific instruments
- data analysis
- automation
- systems integration
- project management

### Nice to have
- product management for scientific hardware
- particle detectors
- optics
- electronics
- seismic instrumentation
- geophysical instrumentation

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