Rio Tinto's Nuton venture aims to reinvent mining through AI and advanced analytics, focusing on sustainable mineral processing and unlocking new sources of critical metals using bio-heap leaching technologies. The company seeks to make mining cleaner, more responsible, and technology-driven.
Requirements
- Develop predictive and prescriptive models with machine learning, AI, and statistics to solve real-world business challenges.
- Comfortable with pipelines, cloud platforms, and distributed data.
- Passionate about software development best practices, including versioning, testing, CI/CD, APIs, and MLOps, and have familiarity with containerization and orchestration.
- Strong problem-solving skills to pioneer new solutions.
- 5+ years of experience preferred.
- Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics background.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in an Agile, startup style environment with software and data engineers, product owners, and mining experts to turn ideas into solutions that scale fast and deliver real impact.
- Dive into massive, complex, and often untapped datasets, from sensors in the field to advanced mineral processing systems, and transform them into actionable insights.
- Develop predictive and prescriptive models with machine learning, AI, and statistics to solve real-world business challenges.
- Communicate insights and recommendations through clear visualizations, dashboards, and presentations.
- Push the boundaries of AI in ways rarely seen in mining, experimenting with cutting-edge AI technologies, to solve previously insurmountable problems.
- Shape the culture of a startup by taking ownership, thinking independently, and iterating quickly.
Other
- Collaborate in an Agile, startup style environment with software and data engineers, product owners, and mining experts to turn ideas into solutions that scale fast and deliver real impact.
- Shape the culture of a startup by taking ownership, thinking independently, and iterating quickly.
- You are a builder at heart – someone who thrives on transforming raw complexity into robust and elegant systems that make a real-world difference.
- You bring a startup mindset: action-oriented, creative, resilient, and always learning. Ambiguity excites you, giving you the chance to flex your entrepreneurial muscle and strong problem-solving skills to pioneer new solutions.
- You love to collaborate, share knowledge openly, and communicate with clarity –because you know data only reaches full potential when it’s accessible and understood.
