# Rainmaker Fellow, Satellite Remote Sensing at Rainmaker

- Company: Rainmaker
- What the company does: Backed by Antler.
- Company website: https://www.rainmaker.co.id/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: El Segundo, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rainmaker/4a8d9de6-1c9b-44dc-9170-49d848819b91
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rainmaker-rainmaker-fellow-satellite-remote-sensing/

## About the role

Acquire, process, collocate, and quality-control microwave, polar-orbiting, and geostationary satellite observations. Reproduce an existing retrieval or operational baseline before testing improvements.

## What they're looking for

- Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, recent graduates, and other early-career researchers are all eligible
- Strong quantitative and programming ability, preferably in Python
- Experience with atmospheric remote sensing, satellite meteorology, physics, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field
- Interest in microwave sounders, polar-orbiting observations, geostationary imagery, retrieval methods, or scientific data products
- Ability to implement a scientific method, establish a baseline, and validate the result carefully
- Comfort working with large, imperfect, multidimensional observational datasets

Tags: R&D