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About the role
Federal Science Agency Engagement: Own Rainmaker’s relationships across the federal research enterprise. Build durable relationships with program managers, division directors, and lab leadership, and understand where funding decisions actually get made.
What they're looking for
- Advanced degree in atmospheric science, physics, engineering, or a related field required with a preference to someone with a PhD
- Working knowledge of how federal research gets funded: how solicitations are written and reviewed, how merit review actually works, and where a proposal lives between submission and award
- Genuine scientific fluency. You should be able to read a paper in atmospheric science, follow the argument, ask a useful question about the methods, and represent our research accurately in a room where no one from the Research Team is present
- Track record of building and winning competitive federal research proposals, including familiarity with the mechanics of grants, cooperative agreements, subawards, and cost-share
- Command of the science policy landscape, especially the authorization and appropriations cycles that drive agency research budgets, the interagency coordination bodies, and the advisory committee processes that shape agency priorities
- Current relationships across the federal science agencies, the Congressional science committees, and the atmospheric or earth science research community
More about this role
Make it rain. Make Snow. Make Earth Habitable.
Rainmaker builds and deploys audacious technologies that work with nature to create an abundant, habitable planet. We are modernizing proven cloud-seeding science with weather-resistant UAS, radar and satellite observations, numerical weather prediction, novel sensing and validation systems, and sustainable seeding technologies. We are building an integrated system to make more freshwater available to farms, ecosystems, and communities.
Our ambition is bold, but we pursue it with humility. We take on difficult problems in the real world with technical rigor, grit, integrity, and an openness to learning and course-correcting. We are hiring individuals with evidence of exceptional ability. If you want to build systems that endure, restore, and provide, and help deliver the future we were promised, we want to hear from you.
Rainmaker is pioneering a modern precipitation enhancement cloud seeding system to solve water scarcity. We develop and incorporate radar validation, weather-resistant UAS, and numerical weather modeling to make water abundant.
As Rainmaker’s Director of Science Policy, you will own our engagement with the federal...
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