Satellite Remote Sensing Fellow — Research Impact & Data

Seeds Renewables; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage

Lunch provided in-office

EV charging at HQ

Job summary

Rainmaker Technology Corporation in El Segundo seeks a Rainmaker Satellite Remote Sensing Fellow—paid, full-time. You will join the satellite remote-sensing group to contribute to a scoped computational workstream and collaborate closely with your mentor on priority research tasks.

You will develop retrievals, validate products, and build reproducible workflows while gaining experience across retrieval, validation, and operational-support activities.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative and programming ability, preferably in Python.
• Experience with atmospheric remote sensing, satellite meteorology, physics, applied mathematics, EE, CS, or related field.
• Interest in microwave sounders, polar-orbiting observations, geostationary imagery, retrieval methods, or scientific data products.

Responsibilities

• Acquire, process, collocate, and quality-control microwave, polar-orbiting, and geostationary satellite observations.
• Reproduce an existing retrieval or operational baseline before testing improvements.
• Validate satellite products against radar, NWP, soundings, surface observations, and Rainmaker measurements.
• Quantify detection skill, bias, uncertainty, etc., by meteorological regime.
• Implement scientifically motivated improvements when justified by data.
• Build documented, reproducible workflows for other scientists to run and extend.

Skills

Python programming

Quantitative analysis

Atmospheric remote sensing

Satellite meteorology

Data handling

Education

Undergraduate, master's, or PhD student/postdoc

Job description

Rainmaker Technology Corporation in El Segundo seeks a Rainmaker Satellite Remote Sensing Fellow—paid, full-time. You will join the satellite remote-sensing group to contribute to a scoped computational workstream and collaborate closely with your mentor on priority research tasks.

You will develop retrievals, validate products, and build reproducible workflows while gaining experience across retrieval, validation, and operational-support activities.