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Rainmaker Fellow, Atmospheric Instrumentation

Rainmaker · El Segundo, CA · On-site

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About Rainmaker

Backed by Antler.

About the role

Translate a scientific measurement need into a scoped experimental or engineering plan with your mentor. Build, integrate, calibrate, or test hardware and analysis methods required by the assigned project.

What they're looking for

  • Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, recent graduates, and other early-career researchers are all eligible
  • Background in optical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, atmospheric science, experimental science, or a related field
  • Strong hands-on experimental ability and willingness to build and troubleshoot hardware personally
  • Quantitative programming and data-analysis ability
  • Careful scientific judgment about calibration, uncertainty, repeatability, and validation
  • Ability to take responsibility for a bounded workstream while collaborating closely with instrumentation engineers and scientists
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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