Lead Instrumentation Engineer — Airborne Sensing Systems

Make Rain; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with employer matching

Full health coverage (medical, dental,

Job summary

Rainmaker is hiring a Lead Instrumentation Engineer to own the technical development of our atmospheric sensing hardware portfolio. You will translate scientific measurement needs into rugged, flight-ready instruments and lead the first airborne cloud-particle imaging instrument through design, integration, and validation.

This is a hands-on, technical leadership role. You will personally make engineering decisions, build and test hardware, define system requirements and verification plans, and

Qualifications

• Degree in electrical/optical/aerospace engineering, physics, or related field.
• Experience delivering complex sensing hardware from requirements to validated operation.
• Ability to integrate optics, mechanics, electronics, embedded control, software and data products.

Responsibilities

• Own instrument delivery from requirements through architecture, design, fabrication, integration, calibration, flight testing, validation, and production transition.
• Establish system requirements, interfaces, performance budgets, verification plan, schedule, and risks.
• Make tradeoffs across optical performance, sampling, size, weight, power, thermal, vibration, and manufacturability.
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary teams including electrical, embedded, data acquisition, software, and field validation.
• Develop calibration and validation campaigns and lead flight integration and testing.

Skills

Instrumentation

Electrical engineering

Optical engineering

Aerospace engineering

Python

UAS integration

Hardware development

Systems engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical/optical/aerospace engineering or physics

Tools

Python

Data acquisition systems

Job description

Rainmaker is hiring a Lead Instrumentation Engineer to own the technical development of our atmospheric sensing hardware portfolio. You will translate scientific measurement needs into rugged, flight-ready instruments and lead the first airborne cloud-particle imaging instrument through design, integration, and validation.

This is a hands-on, technical leadership role. You will personally make engineering decisions, build and test hardware, define system requirements and verification plans, and