Terranox AI

The first AI-powered uranium discovery company

Founding AI/ML Engineer

$150K - $250K0.10% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Machine learning
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Jade Checlair
Jade Checlair
Founder

About the 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

About Terranox AI

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.

Terranox AI
Founded:2025
Batch:W26
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Jade Checlair
Jade Checlair
Founder
Leeav Lipton
Leeav Lipton
Founder