Paid Radar Science Fellowship - Research & Analysis

Lever, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage

Lunch provided when working in-office

Free EV charging at the HQ

Job summary

Rainmaker seeks an on-site Radar Science Fellow in El Segundo, CA, for a paid, full-time research appointment. You will join the radar-science group to work on scoped projects, mentor-led guidance, and deliver a concrete workstream such as datasets, tracking systems, or analysis protocols.

You will build and validate radar datasets, implement processing and retrieval methods, and present findings to scientists, operators, and leadership. Rolling start dates apply, with potential for future roles.

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students; postdoctoral researchers, recent graduates, and other early-career researchers are 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.

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.

Skills

Python

Quantitative analysis

Radar meteorology

Data analysis

Geospatial data

Scientific programming

Education

Undergraduate or graduate student status

Job description

Rainmaker seeks an on-site Radar Science Fellow in El Segundo, CA, for a paid, full-time research appointment. You will join the radar-science group to work on scoped projects, mentor-led guidance, and deliver a concrete workstream such as datasets, tracking systems, or analysis protocols.

You will build and validate radar datasets, implement processing and retrieval methods, and present findings to scientists, operators, and leadership. Rolling start dates apply, with potential for future roles.