Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Mariana MineralsCritical Minerals company
Ann Arbor, United StatesLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Khosla Ventures
Earthshot Ventures
Pax VC
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Set the technical direction for Mariana Minerals' autonomous refining operations.
- •Mariana Minerals is building the critical minerals supply chain from the ground up and is looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help make it autonomous.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the autonomy roadmap across multiple circuits and facilities.
- •Define how control models are validated and certified safe to deploy on real refining equipment.
- •Set the standards for our simulators and our modeling stack.
- •Personally solve the hardest modeling and control problems.
- •Partner with leadership on major capital and operational decisions.
- •Multiply the team through technical direction, design review, and mentoring.
- •Requirements 8+ years in machine learning engineering.
- •A track record of setting technical direction for ML systems in physical, industrial, robotics, or control domains.
- •Deep expertise in reinforcement learning under non-stationarity, simulation and digital twins, and closing sim-to-real gaps.
- •Demonstrated ability to de-risk ambiguous, never-been-done problems.
- •Strong cross-functional influence with both technical leadership and domain experts.
- •A builder at heart.
- •Staff engineers here still ship.
Required skills
PythonTensorFlowTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
PyTorchscikit-learnKubernetesCI/CDDocker
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnKubernetesCI/CDDocker