Paid Satellite Remote Sensing Research Fellow

Socket.dev; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 75,888 - 102,672; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage

Lunch provided in-office

EV charging at HQ

Job summary

Rainmaker seeks exceptional early-career researchers for the Satellite Remote Sensing Fellowship in El Segundo. You will join the satellite-science group, work on a scoped project, and contribute to retrieval, validation, automation, and operational-support tasks.

You will perform microwave-sounder retrieval work, fuse observations, automate workflows, and present results to scientists and leadership. Fellowship is paid, full-time, on-site with a mentor assignment.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative and programming ability, preferably in Python.
• Experience with atmospheric remote sensing, satellite meteorology, physics, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Interest in microwave sounders, polar-orbiting observations, geostationary imagery, retrieval methods, or scientific data products.
• Ability to implement a scientific method, establish a baseline, and validate results carefully.
• Comfort working with large, imperfect multidimensional observational datasets.
• High agency and the ability to take responsibility for a bounded workstream while collaborating with researchers.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Availability for full-time, on-site work in El Segundo for the appointment.

Responsibilities

• Acquire, process, collocate, and quality-control satellite observations.
• Reproduce existing retrieval baseline and test improvements.
• Validate satellite products against radar, NWP, and in-situ measurements.
• Quantify detection skill, bias, uncertainty, and coverage by regime.
• Implement physically motivated or ML retrieval improvements when justified.
• Build reproducible workflows for other scientists to run and extend.
• Present findings to satellite scientists and leadership.
• Deliver artifacts such as datasets, retrieval benchmarks, or fusion prototypes.

Skills

Python programming

Quantitative analysis

Satellite meteorology

Data processing

Communication

Education

Undergraduate/Graduate student

Tools

Git

Jupyter

Job description

Rainmaker seeks exceptional early-career researchers for the Satellite Remote Sensing Fellowship in El Segundo. You will join the satellite-science group, work on a scoped project, and contribute to retrieval, validation, automation, and operational-support tasks.

You will perform microwave-sounder retrieval work, fuse observations, automate workflows, and present results to scientists and leadership. Fellowship is paid, full-time, on-site with a mentor assignment.