Founding Applied Scientist

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

About Terranox

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.

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.

Requirements

  • 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

Bonus

  • Experience working alongside ML researchers or engineers
  • Prior early-stage startup experience

Logistics

  • In-person in San Francisco

About Terranox AI

The first AI-powered uranium discovery company

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Job details

Salary

$150,000 - $250,000

Equity

0.1% - 1%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameTerranox AI
IndustryEnergy
Team Size2

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Jade Checlair

Jade Checlair

LinkedIn
Leeav Lipton

Leeav Lipton

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.