# Founding Applied Scientist

**Company:** [Terranox AI](https://zerogtalent.com/space-companies/terranox-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, US
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Entry
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 150K–250K/yr
**Category:** Research
**Listed:** 2026-04-30

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/terranox-ai/founding-applied-scientist-94018)

## 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 founding applied scientist, anchoring the scientific foundations of our discovery stack. You'll lead how we work with the full range of geoscientific data — geophysical, geochemical, geological, and remote sensing — from what we acquire, to how we process and integrate it, to how it feeds the systems that drive our targeting decisions. Much of the work has no off-the-shelf playbook.

**Requirements**

-   PhD in geophysics, applied physics, computational physics, applied mathematics, or a closely related field; or equivalent deep technical expertise
-   Deep experience with exploration geophysics and with geophysical inversions
-   Strong scientific computing skills (Python, the standard stack)
-   Working fluency with ML — you can be a real thought partner on what we're building
-   Comfort with ambiguous, sparse, multi-modal data

**Bonus**

-   Experience working alongside ML researchers or engineers
-   Prior early-stage startup experience

**Logistics**

-   In-person in San Francisco

## Other open roles at Terranox AI

- [AI/ML Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/terranox-ai/ai-ml-engineer-104394) — San Francisco, CA, US
- [Fall Intern - AI/ML Engineering](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/terranox-ai/fall-intern-ai-ml-engineering-104195) — San Francisco, CA, US
- [Summer Intern - Applied Science MSc/PhD](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/terranox-ai/summer-intern-applied-science-msc-phd-94643) — San Francisco, CA, US
- [Senior Exploration Geologist](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/terranox-ai/senior-exploration-geologist-94134) — Saskatchewan, CA / SK, CA / Remote (SK, CA; Saskatchewan, CA)

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