Paid Atmospheric Instrumentation Fellowship - El Segundo

Lever, Inc.; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Lunch provided & kitchenette

EV charging at HQ

Job summary

Rainmaker is seeking talented undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and early-career researchers for the Rainmaker Atmospheric Instrumentation Fellowship. This paid, full-time, on-site appointment places you on the instrumentation team and assigns a scoped project to work with your research lead or mentor on design, testing, and review.

Fellows will deliver a rigorous, reusable result such as a calibrated prototype, validation dataset, test fixture, or analysis workflow, with potential for future

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students; postdoctoral researchers; recent graduates; and other early-career researchers are all eligible.
• Background in optical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, atmospheric science, experimental science, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experimental ability and willingness to build and troubleshoot hardware personally.
• Quantitative programming and data-analysis ability.
• Careful scientific judgment about calibration, uncertainty, repeatability, and validation.
• Ability to take responsibility for a bounded workstream while collaborating closely with instrumentation engineers and scientists.
• Availability for full-time, on-site work in El Segundo for the agreed appointment.

Responsibilities

• Translate a scientific measurement need into a scoped experimental or engineering plan with your mentor.
• Build, integrate, calibrate, or test hardware and analysis methods required by the assigned project.
• Create repeatable calibration procedures for the agreed instrument metrics.
• Characterize measurement uncertainty and sensitivity to environmental, mechanical, optical, electrical, or algorithmic factors.
• Build fixtures, test equipment, data-acquisition workflows, and analysis software needed for validation.
• Help design laboratory, ground, and flight comparisons against reference instrumentation.
• Connect physical instrument behavior to measurement and retrieval quality.
• Produce clear documentation, calibration records, acceptance criteria, and reusable analysis code.
• Deliver a final artifact such as a validated dataset, calibration system, instrument prototype, test method, uncertainty analysis, or technical report.

Skills

Optical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Physics

Atmospheric science

Experimental science

Quantitative programming

Data-analysis

Laboratory automation

Education

Undergraduate or Graduate student eligibility

Tools

Scientific Python

Image processing

Signal processing

Data acquisition

Lab instrumentation

Job description

Rainmaker is seeking talented undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and early-career researchers for the Rainmaker Atmospheric Instrumentation Fellowship. This paid, full-time, on-site appointment places you on the instrumentation team and assigns a scoped project to work with your research lead or mentor on design, testing, and review.

Fellows will deliver a rigorous, reusable result such as a calibrated prototype, validation dataset, test fixture, or analysis workflow, with potential for future