Senior Geophysicist (Processing) Fault Imaging (Extensional Geothermal)
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Job Location:
Salt Lake, UT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
27 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Role Overview
Hours: Fulltime; Salaried
Location: Salt Lake City UT (hybrid)
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Manager: Head of Imaging R&D
Why we exist and why we need you
Geothermal is abundant but historically hard to find and expensive to develop. Zanskar modernizes geothermal exploration by combining field data collection advanced imaging and data science so developers can drill with confidence. Your mission is to detect and characterize the faults that control geothermal fluid flowwith special emphasis on extensional provinces and volcanic terranes where there are many wavefield scatterers high wavefront attenuation and often weak impedance contrasts and to turn activesource seismic data into drillrelevant decisions. This role bridges survey design acquisition processing anisotropic depth modeling and imaging and clear uncertainty communication to internal stakeholders.
Outcomes-- Problems youll solve
- Design seismic surveys to see reflections from offset strata and/or faults and fault zones. Align survey geometry nearsurface strategy and interpretation goals with exploration and reservoir teams so the design maximizes fault detectability.
- Deliver depthmigrated fault images with stated uncertainty. Run robust land survey workflows (elevation/refraction statics denoise/groundroll attenuation decon Qcomp) and use time-migration for rapid QC and depth migration for final imaging.
- Build reliable velocity models. Iterate with tomography (and FWI where practical); validate with angledomain gathers horizon ties and well/checkshot control when available; demonstrate depth accuracy fitfordrilling.
- Focus on permeabilitycontrolling structure. Emphasize fault/fracture characterization and subtle offsets typical of extensional & volcanic settings; produce faultfocused deliverables and quantify uncertainty.
- Own vendor execution. Draft SoWs with measurable acceptance criteria (e.g. gather flatness depth mistie budgets formats reproducibility); run technical evaluations; lead daytoday QC; sign off on deliverables; integrate external results into Zanskars versioned models.
What were looking for (Required)
- MSc or PhD in Geophysics Seismology Physics Mathematics or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5 years in land 2D and/or 3D activesource design processing and depth imaging. With demonstrated fault modeling and/or fault imagingbonus if completed in extensional settings or volcanic zones (your priority for the role).
- Strong statics and nearsurface model building (refraction; exposure to FWI).
- Proven anisotropic model building (VTI required; TTI strongly preferred) with gatherbased QC (flattening residual moveout).
- Experience overseeing contractors: writing SoWs evaluating bids managing schedule/budget running acceptance tests and integrating results
Preferred Experience
- Basin & Range or analogous extensionalterrain experience.
- FWI for nearsurface/velocity updates; RTM and other novel imaging exposure.
- Cloud/GPU workflows; Python fluency version control (git) and CI for processing recipes.
Location and Benefits
- The position is based out of our headquarters in Salt Lake City Utah and is a hybrid position
- Paid Holidays
- 18 days PTO PTO accrual increase based on tenure
- Medical Dental & Vision Coverage
- 401k
- Stock Options
- Growth opportunities at a quickly scaling company with a direct impact in displacing carbon emissions
Equal Opportunity Employer
Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practice laws.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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