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Lead mechanical engineering for mineral refining facilities from concept through commissioning. Responsibilities include equipment design, plant layouts, static equipment calculations, FEA, solids-handling systems, vendor management, multidisciplinary EPC coordination, and construction and startup support. The role requires hands-on delivery of greenfield and brownfield projects involving tanks, vessels, silos, conveyors, kilns, and other industrial processing equipment.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building MarianaOS, an operational platform for mining and mineral processing. Responsibilities include hiring, performance management, career development, delivery planning, roadmap execution, technical collaboration, process improvement, and stakeholder communication. The manager remains technically engaged, uses engineering metrics to improve team performance, removes blockers, and helps the team ship reliable software quickly in partnership with engineering, construction, product, and operations teams.

Build and maintain onboard and platform software for autonomous mining vehicles, including sensor drivers, data pipelines, synchronization, calibration, deployment, monitoring, simulation, testing, drive-by-wire integration, low-level controls, and safety systems. Collaborate with machine learning, hardware, controls, and mine operations teams through field validation on real equipment.

Own Mariana Minerals’ infrastructure platform across AWS, EKS, on-premises, and edge clusters. Build self-service infrastructure, GitOps delivery, observability, identity and secrets management, cost controls, and reliable ML/data workloads. Lead cluster operations, incident response, upgrades, and automation that enables engineers to provision and operate services independently.

Own applied statistical analysis for mineral processing operations, including experimental design, metric definitions, uncertainty quantification, process control, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards. Analyze messy sensor, assay, laboratory, and plant data to support production, cost, supplier, and capacity decisions. Partner with data platform teams, improve analytical rigor across the company, and communicate findings clearly to operators, engineers, and executives.

Own the product strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and production readiness for Mariana Minerals’ ML platform, simulators, perception systems, and industrial robotics initiatives. Translate operator and engineering needs into specifications, KPIs, and shippable work; align stakeholders across applied AI/ML, software engineering, and plant operations; and define trusted deployment standards for models, simulators, and robots supporting autonomous chemical and industrial processes.

Own the roadmap and product direction for the data platform, analytics, data science tooling, and AI-driven workflows. The role involves stakeholder discovery, prioritization, product specifications, KPI definition, build-versus-buy decisions, data integration standards, prototyping, and driving agentic tools from proof of concept to production. The Technical Product Manager will bring structure to ambiguous initiatives, align technical and business stakeholders, and establish supported, scalable software practices.

Lead controls programming, equipment engineering, plant automation, and mineral refining project execution from concept through commissioning and operations handoff. Manage external providers and cross-functional technical teams, support junior engineer development, build technoeconomic models, prepare financing deliverables, and identify software and machine-learning opportunities for automating capital projects and optimizing plant controls.

Designs and executes hydrometallurgical experiments at laboratory and pilot scale. Operates reactors, filtration, separation, and purification equipment; monitors process parameters; prepares reagents; collects and analyzes data; and optimizes extraction through DOE and statistical methods. The role also produces reports and visualizations, maintains laboratory documentation, troubleshoots and calibrates equipment, conducts hazard assessments, and follows chemical safety, PPE, MSHA, and OSHA protocols.

Lead controls and instrumentation engineering for novel mineral refining facilities from concept through commissioning, ramp, and handover. Manage equipment providers, licensors, engineering firms, and cross-functional technical teams. Oversee instrument, valve, analyzer, network, and control-system selection and installation; support industrial machine-learning optimization and workflow automation. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to medium-to-large capital project execution, plant-network security, and development of the internal engineering team.