Atmospheric Instrumentation Fellow: Hands-On Research

Blackwing; El Segundo (CA); Hybride; USD 76 000 - 103 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Full health coverage (medical, dental,

Lunch provided when working in-office

EV charging at HQ

Résumé du poste

Rainmaker is seeking a Fellowship candidate to contribute to atmospheric instrumentation projects on-site in El Segundo. You will join the instrumentation team, take ownership of a scoped workstream, and produce a rigorous, reusable result that advances key instrument capabilities.

You will work under a mentor to design, test, and validate hardware and software, with opportunities for future roles. The fellowship emphasizes hands-on work, calibration, and collaboration with scientists and

Qualifications

• Undergraduate, master's, or PhD candidates; postdocs or recent graduates eligible.
• Background in optical, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics, atmospheric science or related field.
• Hands-on experimental ability and willingness to build troubleshoot hardware.
• Quantitative programming and data-analysis ability.
• Careful scientific judgment about calibration, uncertainty, and validation.

Responsabilités

• Translate measurement need into a scoped experimental/engineering plan with mentor.
• Build, integrate, calibrate, or test hardware and analysis methods for the project.
• Create repeatable calibration procedures for instrument metrics.
• Characterize measurement uncertainty and environmental sensitivities.
• Build fixtures, data-acquisition workflows, and analysis software for validation.
• Deliver a final artifact such as a dataset, prototype, or test method.

Connaissances

Optical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Physics

Atmospheric science

Experimental science

Programming

Data analysis

Outils

Scientific Python

Image processing

Signal processing

Data acquisition

Description du poste

Rainmaker is seeking a Fellowship candidate to contribute to atmospheric instrumentation projects on-site in El Segundo. You will join the instrumentation team, take ownership of a scoped workstream, and produce a rigorous, reusable result that advances key instrument capabilities.

You will work under a mentor to design, test, and validate hardware and software, with opportunities for future roles. The fellowship emphasizes hands-on work, calibration, and collaboration with scientists and