Senior Project Geologist
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Job overview
Explore Tech is hiring a Senior Project Geologist to lead complex customer projects for its mineral discovery service. The role spans project scoping, geological analysis using the company’s software and modeling tools, customer collaboration, and delivery. The geologist will mentor Project Geologists, help improve delivery practices, and work closely with founders and product, research, and engineering teams.
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Full job description
We’re accelerating the pace of mineral discovery. Our AI drill targeting software has gone 8 for 8 hitting mineralized targets, a significant improvement over industry standards. Now the biggest mining companies in the world want results on their ground, and we deliver them as a service. We’re hiring a Senior Project Geologist to lead our most complex and most important customer projects. You’ll own customer-facing projects from first conversation to final deliverable: scoping the work with chief geologists and exploration teams, using our software, Python APIs, and modeling tools to produce geological results, and working through those results with the customer’s geologists. You’ll take on the largest and most technically demanding projects, mentor our Project Geologists, and help shape how we deliver. The role sits between geology, software, and the customer, and you’ll work closely with the founders. What You’ll Do
- Lead our most complex customer projects, including multi-deposit and multi-project engagements, from scope through delivery
- Use our software, Python APIs, and modeling tools to generate geological results and drill targets
- Run technical discovery with customers and work with our science and engineering teams to turn their geology into project scope and pricing
- Guide exploration thinking and drilling decisions in partnership with customer geologists and executives
- Mentor and review the work of Project Geologists
- Write proposals, statements of work, and technical reports
- Help define and improve how we deliver projects, from templates to quality standards
- Bring customer feedback to the product and research teams
- Join customer field campaigns and site visits as needed
About You
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in geology, economic geology, or a related earth science field
- 8+ years of hands-on mineral exploration experience, including leading projects or teams from target generation through drill testing
- A track record of delivering drill-ready targets or discoveries
- Comfortable with Python, scripting, and 3D modeling and GIS tools
- Credible and personable with experienced geologists and executives; you can discuss ore deposit models, drill targeting, and data quality at a peer level
- Comfortable owning a project, its timeline, and the customer relationship
- Able to travel to customer sites and remote parts of the US and world
Bonus Points For
- Professional registration (P.Geo, CPG, or equivalent)
- Experience developing software tools for exploration
- Experience mentoring geologists
- Startup experience
How this job compares
Set against the 894 open Geologist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$91–159K/yr51 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 62 open Geologist jobs in California and 894 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Geologist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 823 postings).
- Education
- 786 of the 894 open Geologist jobs (88%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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