Founding AI/ML Engineer

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  • Terranox AI
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Full-Time
  • 1 week ago
  • $150k - $250k
Terranox AI
Published
April 30, 2026
Location
San Francisco, CA
Category
Job Type

Founding AI/ML Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role: An early-stage ML engineer role building and shipping computer vision–based ML systems for uranium discovery in an AI-driven energy startup.
  • The Person: Build computer vision models from scratch on sparsely labeled data and ship them into production ML pipelines that drive real-world discovery decisions.
  • Requirements: The role requires 5+ years of ML experience, a strong computer vision background, experience taking ML systems to production, and fluency with recent ML research.

Job Description

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 first dedicated ML hire building the ML systems at the core of Terranox. The work spans multiple modalities and model classes, much of it without an off-the-shelf playbook. You'll train computer vision models from scratch on messy, sparsely-labeled data and ship them into a production pipeline that drives real-world decisions. This is a hands-on, build-from-zero role.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of ML experience, with a track record of building ML systems from scratch
  • Strong computer vision background
  • Experience taking ML systems to production
  • Comfort framing ambiguous problems, not just solving well-defined ones
  • Fluency with recent ML research and the ability to translate it into shipped systems

Bonus but not required

  • Geospatial experience
  • Background in sparse-label or weak-supervision regimes
  • Prior early-stage startup experience

Logistics

  • In-person in San Francisco

Terranox is 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.

Key Skills
? Key Skills in dark blue have been inferred based on similar industry roles
Pytorch Or Tensorflow Model Deployment / Mlops Training On Sparse Labels / Weak Supervision Geospatial ML ML Computer Vision Logistics

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