
AI & Optimization Engineer
Tether.to
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Argentina
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About the role
- Define and lead the AI strategy for MOS & MDK with a focus on operational efficiency and measurable business outcomes
- Translate operational challenges into data and optimization problems that AI models can solve
- Establish best-practice frameworks for scalable, production-ready AI systems
- Design a standardized data baseline/schema for all mining-site telemetry and events
- Ensure data is structured, normalized, labelled and accessible for AI/ML use cases
- Work with backend engineers to evolve the data pipeline and integration standards
- Build and deploy ML/AI and optimization models such as: performance optimization anomaly detection predictive failure & maintenance energy-efficiency insights operational automation recommendations
- Continuously evaluate and improve model performance in production
- Work with MOS & MDK engineering teams to embed AI models into platform workflows and APIs
- Collaborate with site-operations teams to validate results and gather feedback
- Align with leadership on AI roadmap, priorities, impact tracking, and KPIs
- Document systems, architecture, and modelling assumptions clearly
- Promote a data-driven, efficiency-first culture within the Mining Software team
- Stay updated on AI, optimization and industrial analytics trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or similar
- 3+ years’ experience in AI/ML, data science, or applied optimization roles
- Proven experience designing data models / schemas / baselines for large-scale, time-series–heavy datasets
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn)
- Strong JavaScript / TypeScript proficiency (Node.js ecosystem)
- Familiarity with containerized workloads (Docker)
- Experience developing and deploying time-series, anomaly detection, classification, and predictive models for mechanical, electromechanical, or hardware-intensive equipment/systems in production environments
- Solid understanding of signal processing and feature extraction for sensor data (e.g., electrical, thermal, vibration, or telemetry signals)
- Solid understanding of optimization techniques (linear/non-linear programming, simulation, decision systems, etc.)
- Experience deploying, monitoring, maintaining AI models into production systems including handling model drift and evolving operating conditions
- Excellent English communication skills and ability to collaborate in distributed teams.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI strategydata modelingmachine learningPythonPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnJavaScriptTypeScriptoptimization techniques
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingdata-driven mindsetfeedback gatheringdocumentationefficiency-first culture
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree