Founding AI/ML Engineer
Founding AI/ML Engineer at Terranox AI — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Terranox AI
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 150000–250000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
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