Radar Science Fellow: Build Datasets & Tools

Rainmaker; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage (medical, dental,

Lunch provided in-office

EV charging at HQ

Job summary

Rainmaker is seeking interns and early-career researchers for the Radar Science Fellowship, a paid, full-time on-site research appointment in El Segundo, CA. You will join Rainmaker's radar-science group and work on selected projects, taking ownership of a workstream while contributing to ongoing analysis, scientific reviews, and operational support.

Ideal candidates are current undergraduates, master's, or PhD students or recent graduates with strong quantitative and programming abilities

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students; postdoctoral researchers; recent graduates; and other early-career researchers are all eligible.
• Strong quantitative and programming ability, preferably in Python.
• Experience with radar meteorology, atmospheric science, signal processing, remote sensing, or closely related field.
• Ability to formulate a scientific question, implement an analysis, and validate results carefully.
• Comfort working with large, imperfect observational datasets.
• Availability for full-time, on-site work in El Segundo for the 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

Radar meteorology

Quantitative analysis

Scientific writing

Communication

Education

Undergraduate/Graduate student or recent graduate

Postdoctoral researcher (optional)

Job description

Rainmaker is seeking interns and early-career researchers for the Radar Science Fellowship, a paid, full-time on-site research appointment in El Segundo, CA. You will join Rainmaker's radar-science group and work on selected projects, taking ownership of a workstream while contributing to ongoing analysis, scientific reviews, and operational support.

Ideal candidates are current undergraduates, master's, or PhD students or recent graduates with strong quantitative and programming abilities