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Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Zanskar · Salt Lake City, Utah · Hybrid

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About Zanskar

Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals uses custom AI tools and geoscience models to analyze vast amounts of data and pinpoint untapped geothermal hotspots. Backed by USV.

About the role

Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2,300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil, gas, coal, and methane combined. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid.

What they're looking for

  • Lead - you will be a trusted leader who can both design and deliver a reliable distributed compute system that meets the ongoing needs of our scientific research teams
  • Learn - you will be entering a team with an existing system in place that needs to grow and scale. You will learn the domain from your peers as you identify how to migrate the system for scale and reliability
  • Minimum 7+ years experience in software engineering in a business environment, ideally with a heavy scientific component
  • Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems
  • Proven technical skills :
  • Experience defining and developing persistent data storage for digital artifacts, both with RDBMS and cloud blob storage at scale
More about this role

Title : Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Hours : Full-Time, Salaried

Benefits Eligible : Yes

Manager : Head of Reservoir R&D

Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2,300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil, gas, coal, and methane combined. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid. We are revolutionizing the exploration process, setting new industry standards for discovery rates and finding new prospects at an unprecedented scale. To reduce risk and improve outcomes, we rely on novel software and machine learning modeling.

The Senior/Staff Software Engineer will play a critical role developing and maintaining Zanskar’s next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine. A successful candidate will:

  • Lead - you will be a trusted leader who can both design and deliver a reliable distributed compute system that meets the ongoing needs of our scientific research teams.
  • Learn - you will be entering a team...

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