Staff Frontend Software Engineer

Core responsibilities:

• Build intuitive and elegant user experiences to empower fellow KoBolders with backgrounds in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and data science
• Own and improve KoBold's existing web apps that manage data upload, discovery, search, and visualization
• Collaborate with scientists to architect new tools to support complex, interactive 2D/3D geospatial visualizations, plotting, and data labeling
• Champion frontend best practices, modernize the stack to standardize UIs, prototype faster, and deploy useful apps for geologists and data scientists

This role contributes to making mineral exploration more efficient and sustainable by building AI-powered tools that help discover critical metals needed for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers, reducing the capital required for discoveries compared to traditional methods.

Required qualifications:

• Experience architecting, developing, and maintaining frontend applications that provide rich user experiences
• Ability to write production-quality code that is correct, performant, scalable, and extensible
• Skilled with data visualization libraries (D3, Leaflet, etc.)
• Experience with modern JavaScript tools (node.js, TypeScript, React, Angular, etc.), modern deployment and cloud technologies, Python web frameworks (Django, Panel, Flask, etc.), and classic frontend development (HTML, CSS, etc.)

The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $160,000 - $240,000. The position is full-time.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models alongside novel sensors to guide decisions on exploration programs. The company aims to make mineral discovery more efficient and sustainable to meet growing demand for metals needed for clean energy technologies.