# Exploration Geologist

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. Since our founding in 2018, 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

- **Id**: 4300658
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kobold-metals-exploration-geologist>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US, AU, CA, ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 4
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T22:34:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T03:01:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6128
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mining, Rare Earth Metals

## Company

- **Id**: 178039
- **Name**: KoBold Metals
- **Domain**: koboldmetals.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kobold-metals>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 25
- **Ghost share**: 0.2
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 127
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 70000
- **Max**: 110000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 110000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **QGIS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country
- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T03:01:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 127
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:51:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 110000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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