Radar Science Fellowship — Launch Your Weather Analytics

Rainmaker Technology Corporation; Norman (OK); On-site; USD 76,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage (medical, dental,

Job summary

Rainmaker is seeking a Radar Science Fellow for a paid, full-time research appointment. You will join Rainmaker's radar-science group and work on a scoped project in close collaboration with a research lead or mentor.

You will take responsibility for a concrete workstream while contributing to ongoing analysis, scientific review, and operational support across the radar team. The fellowship emphasizes rigorous analysis, collaboration with scientists, and the potential for future roles.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative and programming ability, preferably in Python.
• Experience with radar meteorology, atmospheric science, signal processing, or related fields.
• Ability to formulate a scientific question, implement an analysis, and validate results carefully.
• Experience handling large, imperfect observational datasets.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build quality-controlled radar datasets aligned with aircraft, UAS, satellite, model, surface, or observations.
• Implement and validate radar-processing, feature-extraction, retrieval, and tracking methods.
• Investigate how results vary with storm type, range, terrain, and data quality.
• Develop baselines and quantify uncertainty, false detections, and biases.
• Create case visualizations and analyses for domain experts.
• Produce reusable code and documentation.
• Present findings to Rainmaker's radar scientists and leadership.
• Deliver a final artifact such as a dataset, tracking system, or research paper.

Skills

Python

Radar meteorology

Geospatial data

Data analysis

Scientific programming

Job description

Rainmaker is seeking a Radar Science Fellow for a paid, full-time research appointment. You will join Rainmaker's radar-science group and work on a scoped project in close collaboration with a research lead or mentor.

You will take responsibility for a concrete workstream while contributing to ongoing analysis, scientific review, and operational support across the radar team. The fellowship emphasizes rigorous analysis, collaboration with scientists, and the potential for future roles.