Founding Applied Scientist
Terranox AI, San Francisco, California
The role
You'll be our founding applied scientist, anchoring the scientific foundations of our discovery stack. You'll lead how we work with the full range of geoscientific data — geophysical, geochemical, geological, and remote sensing — from what we acquire, to how we process and integrate it, to how it feeds the systems that drive our targeting decisions. Much of the work has no off-the-shelf playbook.
What you need
- PhD in geophysics, applied physics, computational physics, applied mathematics, or a closely related field; or equivalent deep technical expertise
- Deep experience with exploration geophysics and with geophysical inversions
- Strong scientific computing skills (Python, the standard stack)
- Working fluency with ML – you can be a real thought partner on what we're building
- Comfort with ambiguous, sparse, multi-modal data
Nice to have
- Experience working alongside ML researchers or engineers
- Prior early-stage startup experience
Logistics
- In-person in San Francisco
About Terranox AI
We're the first AI-powered uranium discovery company. Nuclear is the only clean, scalable, and baseload energy source available today, and we’re structurally short on uranium. We're addressing that by applying AI/ML to a discovery process that hasn't fundamentally changed in decades.
Backed by General Catalyst, 776 Ventures, Y Combinator, and others.
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