# Lead Instrumentation Engineer at Rainmaker

- Company: Rainmaker
- What the company does: Backed by Antler.
- Company website: https://www.rainmaker.co.id/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: El Segundo, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rainmaker/fb9169cd-de8d-422c-931e-7597fa4fe152
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rainmaker-lead-instrumentation-engineer/

## About the role

Rainmaker is hiring a Lead Instrumentation Engineer to own the technical development of our atmospheric sensing hardware. You will translate scientific measurement needs into instruments that can survive flight, produce calibrated data, and become reliable parts of Rainmaker's operational system.

## What they're looking for

- A degree in electrical engineering, optical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent evidence of exceptional instrument-development ability
- A record of delivering complex sensing or scientific hardware from ambiguous requirements to validated operation
- Deep hands-on strength in at least one relevant discipline, paired with enough systems judgment to integrate optics, mechanics, electronics, embedded control, software, and data products
- Experience setting requirements, interfaces, error or performance budgets, verification methods, and test plans for multidisciplinary hardware
- Strong mechanical and electrical intuition and willingness to build, assemble, debug, and test hardware personally
- Experience making hardware work outside the laboratory under real thermal, vibration, contamination, alignment, power, and communications constraints

Tags: R&D