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Rainmaker Fellow, Radar Science

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Hybrid (El Segundo, CA), Hybrid (Norman, OK)$8k/moFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Fellowship position in Rainmaker's radar-science group focusing on radar data analysis, dataset construction, and operational support for Rainmaker's precipitation-enhancement programs. Paid, full-time on-site fellowship with mentor support and potential for future roles.

Responsibilities

  • Build quality-controlled radar datasets aligned with aircraft, UAS, satellite, model, surface, or operational observations.
  • Implement and validate radar-processing, feature-extraction, retrieval, storm-tracking, or statistical-analysis methods.
  • Investigate how results vary with storm type, range, terrain, temperature regime, observing geometry, and data quality.
  • Develop honest baselines and quantify uncertainty, false detections, selection effects, and failure modes.
  • Create case visualizations and scientific analyses that domain experts can inspect.
  • Produce clear, reusable code and documentation.
  • Present findings to Rainmaker's radar scientists, meteorologists, operators, and technical leadership.
  • Deliver a final artifact such as a validated dataset, case atlas, tracking system, retrieval candidate, operational product, analysis protocol, or research paper.

Qualifications

  • 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 radar meteorology, atmospheric science, signal processing, remote sensing, image analysis, geospatial data, or a closely related field.
  • Ability to formulate a scientific question, implement an analysis, and validate the result carefully.
  • Comfort working with large, imperfect observational datasets.
  • High agency and the ability to take responsibility for a bounded workstream while collaborating with experienced researchers.
  • Clear written and verbal communication.
  • Availability for full-time, on-site work in El Segundo for the agreed appointment.

Skills

Required:Python

Benefits

  • Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance)
  • Lunch provided when working in-office and a fully stocked kitchenette
  • Free EV charging at the HQ
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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