KoBold Metals
Finding the materials of the future with AI and HI: KoBold Metals discovers the materials critical for the electric vehicle and renewable energy revolutions.
GrowthBerkeley, California300 people
29 open roles
All teams29Advanced Technology Group5Geology2Field Operations4Operations3Software Engineering7Human Resources2Data Science3Mine Engineering1Finance, Accounting & Analytics2
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Roles are read from KoBold Metals’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
KoBold Metals hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- KoBold Metals has the 189th most open roles of 2,932 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 29 open roles is 1.7× the average Growth startup here (17.4).
- 34% of openings are in Engineering, then Science (24%).
- Most roles are senior (38%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 300, these openings would grow headcount by up to 10%.
- Median posted pay of $173k is 7% below the Growth startup median ($185k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $193k) is 5% above the market median for Engineering ($183k).
- 83% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 86% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 48% of postings mention equity.
- 30 roles added in the last 30 days; 1 closed in the last 90.
- Its roles stay open for a median 3 months before closing (market: 47 days).
- A typical open listing here is 5 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
100%at 7 days100%at 30 days100%at 60 days95%at 90 days
Momentum, explained
- KoBold Metals hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 30
- Roles added in 30 days
- 30
- Roles added in 90 days
- 30
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 1
- Median time a role stays open
- 3 months
- Market: 47 days
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #189
- of 2,932 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.10
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 29
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 1
- 3% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 4
- 14% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 5 months
- Oldest: 41 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $173k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $146k–$196k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 83%
- 24 of 29
- Mention equity
- 48%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 86%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 7 yrs
- 1 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
30
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering1034%
- 2Science724%
- 3Data414%
- 4Operations414%
- 5Other310%
- 6Sales13%
- 1Senior1138%
- 2Mid level1034%
- 3Staff517%
- 4Director13%
- 5Executive13%
- 6Manager13%
- 1Remote2586%
- 2Not stated414%
- 1North America13%
- 2San Francisco Bay Area13%
- 3Sudbury13%
- 4Sweden - Remote13%
- 1Not stated29100%
- 1Software Engineering724%
- 2Advanced Technology Group517%
- 3Field Operations414%
- 4Data Science310%
- 5Operations310%
- 6Finance, Accounting & Analytics27%
- 7Geology27%
- 8Human Resources27%
+1 more across 1 others
$60kLow$146k25th$173kMedian$196k75th$350kHigh
$140kLow$140k25th$185kMedian$225k75th$225kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every KoBold Metals role.