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Machine Learning Researcher

Rainmaker · El Segundo, CA · On-site

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About Rainmaker

Backed by Antler.

About the role

Rainmaker is hiring its first dedicated Machine Learning Researcher. You will establish how Rainmaker uses machine learning across the company: identifying the most valuable problems, determining which are ready for ML, building working models, and partnering with engineers and domain experts to turn successful research into operational systems.

What they're looking for

  • Evidence of exceptional ability in machine learning research and engineering, regardless of whether it was developed in academia, industry, independent work, or another technical field
  • Strong command of modern machine-learning methods and practical experience training, evaluating, and debugging models
  • Strong Python skills and experience with a modern ML framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or an equivalent system
  • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into measurable targets, tractable experiments, credible baselines, and working prototypes
  • Sound statistical judgment, including careful treatment of leakage, distribution shift, calibration, uncertainty, and small or biased datasets
  • Ability to work with noisy, sparse, multimodal, spatial, or temporal data
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 cloud-seeding system to increase precipitation, improve water availability, and address severe-weather challenges. We combine atmospheric science, weather-resistant UAS, radar and satellite observations, numerical weather prediction, novel sensing systems, and sustainable seeding...

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