About the role#
The Rainmaker Satellite Remote Sensing Fellowship is a paid, full-time research appointment. Fellows join the satellite remote-sensing group to work on scoped projects aligned with current research priorities. You will collaborate with a research lead or mentor to take responsibility for a concrete computational workstream, contributing to retrieval, validation, automation, and operational support. By the end of the appointment, you will deliver a tangible result such as a validation dataset, retrieval benchmark, error analysis, or automated workflow.
What you'll do#
- Acquire, process, collocate, and quality-control microwave, polar-orbiting, and geostationary satellite observations.
- Validate satellite products against radar, NWP, soundings, surface observations, and Rainmaker aircraft, UAS, or in-situ measurements.
- Quantify detection skill, bias, uncertainty, spatial representativeness, latency, coverage, and failure modes by meteorological regime.
- Implement physically motivated, statistical, or ML retrieval improvements when justified by the project and data.
- Build documented, reproducible workflows that other Rainmaker scientists can run and extend.
What you'll need#
- Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, recent graduates, or other early-career researchers.
- Strong quantitative and programming ability, preferably in Python.
- Experience in 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.
- Comfort working with large, imperfect, multidimensional observational datasets.
Location & details#
- This role is based on-site in El Segundo, California.
- The position is full-time with rolling applications.
- Relevant academic backgrounds include Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Data Science.
About Rainmaker Technology Corporation
Rainmaker Technology Corporation manufactures climate technology products. The company focuses on cloud seeding for farms, ecosystems, and communities. Founded in 2023, the firm maintains its headquarters in El Segundo, California. It operates as a privately held entity with 105 employees.
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