Machine Learning Engineer

Mariana Minerals
Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Houston
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 160,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Self-motivation","Curiosity","Communication","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Develop and deploy reinforcement learning-based control systems for Mariana Minerals’ autonomous mineral refining facilities. You’ll work from simulators to real plants, improving recovery, energy use, and uptime while collaborating with process and chemistry experts. You’ll write clean, production-ready code and contribute to training environments and production services.

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Mariana Minerals
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Machine Learning Engineer

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Job Summary

Develop and deploy reinforcement learning-based control systems for Mariana Minerals’ autonomous mineral refining facilities. You’ll work from simulators to real plants, improving recovery, energy use, and uptime while collaborating with process and chemistry experts. You’ll write clean, production-ready code and contribute to training environments and production services.
Location: Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Houston
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Run reinforcement learning experiments in physically realistic simulators of mineral processing operations and help turn the results into better controllers.
  • •Build and refine pieces of training environments—reward functions, observations, and action logic—with guidance from senior engineers.
  • •Train control models, track and interpret their performance, and dig into why a model underperforms.
  • •Help close the gap between simulation and reality by comparing model behavior against real plant data and flagging where the physics diverges.
  • •Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to the services that put models into production.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 160,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •0–4 years of experience in machine learning, reinforcement learning, or scientific computing, including internships or research; strong recent graduate with depth acceptable
Skills:Self-motivationCuriosityCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamwork
Tech Stack:PythonReinforcement learningSimulationMachine learning

Company Brief

Mariana Minerals
Software-first, vertically integrated minerals company developing extraction, processing, and automation systems to supply critical minerals (lithium and others) for energy, AI, and defense technologies, and building commercial-scale lithium facilities from produced water.
Industry: Mining & Metals
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
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