Scientific Analyst
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Scientific Analyst at KoBold Metals working on mineral exploration data analysis and commercial analytics. Collaborating with teams and supporting operational decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with mineral exploration project teams and develop a deep understanding of exploration activities, the underlying geoscience, how KoBold develops and deploys its exploration technology, and unique considerations when operating in jurisdictions ranging from the Arctic to southern Africa.
- Help prepare presentations, reports, and visualizations summarizing exploration progress, hypotheses or planned work programs.
- Partner with exploration project leads and department heads to build and maintain budget forecasts, track actuals. Identify and implement process improvements for data workflows, project tracking, and reporting.
- Conduct cost-benefit analyses for proposed drilling campaigns, technology investments, or regional exploration initiatives.
- Work with the commercial analytics team to identify global trends affecting metal demand.
- Work with the business development team to track companies exploring in similar terrains or commodities to help identify potential corporate opportunities.
- Support initiatives to partner with universities and exploration leaders from other companies to uplift university programs, support post-graduate studies, and provide student mentoring.
- Support initiatives for teams to meet in-person, at offsites, field mapping exercises, research collaborations etc.
- Help build, deliver and monitor professional development programs, identifying training, conference, and continuous learning initiatives.
- Act as the business owner for managing geological software systems and licensing requirements.
Requirements:
- Education in science or math (geoscience, physics, chemistry, astronomy/astrophysics, or mathematics is preferred)
- Experience with Python or other scientific computing language
- At least 1 year of experience in technology, natural resources, or finance
- A strong orientation toward thinking from first principles with respect to science, technology, economics, and business
- A high degree of independence and the ability to work effectively with limited supervision
- Excitement about working on a wide array of problems
- Excellent communication and data presentation skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Excellent organizational skills
- Flexibility to accommodate meetings with staff in different time zones, and occasional travel.
Benefits:
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