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Rainmaker Fellow, Atmospheric Instrumentation at Rainmaker Technology Corporation | LAYIQ

Developing calibration and validation methods for an airborne cloud-particle imaging instrument.
Creating controlled targets, fixtures, and acceptance tests for optical or particle-sensing systems.
Characterizing measurement uncertainty and environmental sensitivity across laboratory, ground, and flight tests.
Designing comparisons between Rainmaker instruments and trusted reference instrumentation.
Prototyping a new optical, mechanical, electrical, data-acquisition, or atmospheric-sensing subsystem.
What You'll Do: Translate a scientific measurement need into a scoped experimental or engineering plan with your mentor.
Build, integrate, calibrate, or test hardware and analysis methods required by the assigned project.
Create repeatable calibration procedures for the agreed instrument metrics.
Characterize measurement uncertainty and sensitivity to environmental, mechanical, optical, electrical, or algorithmic factors.
Build fixtures, test equipment, data-acquisition workflows, and analysis software needed for validation.
Help design laboratory, ground, and flight comparisons against reference instrumentation.
Connect physical instrument behavior to measurement and retrieval quality.
Produce clear documentation, calibration records, acceptance criteria, and reusable analysis code.
Deliver a final artifact such as a validated dataset, calibration system, instrument prototype, test method, uncertainty analysis, or technical report.
What We're Looking For: Current undergraduate, master's, or PhD students; postdoctoral researchers; recent graduates; and other early-career researchers are all eligible.
Background in optical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, atmospheric science, experimental science, or a related field.
Strong hands-on experimental ability and willingness to build and troubleshoot hardware personally.
Quantitative programming and data-analysis ability.
Careful scientific judgment about calibration, uncertainty, repeatability, and validation.
Ability to take responsibility for a bounded workstream while collaborating closely with instrumentation engineers and scientists.
Availability for full-time, on-site work in El Segundo for the agreed appointment.
Particularly Relevant Experience: Digital holography, microscopy, particle imaging, lasers, high-speed cameras, lidar, aerosol instruments, cloud probes, or optical metrology.
Calibration fixtures, laboratory automation, uncertainty budgets, environmental testing, or acceptance testing.
Scientific Python, image processing, signal processing, or data acquisition.
Airborne, UAS-borne, field-deployed, or low-volume scientific instruments.

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