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Rainmaker Fellow, Satellite Remote Sensing at Rainmaker Technology Corporation | LAYIQ

Benchmarking and improving microwave-sounder retrievals using Rainmaker in-cloud measurements, radar, geostationary imagery, and model fields.
Fusing intermittent polar-orbiting observations with frequent geostationary imagery to track cloud properties between overpasses.
Automating an existing manual satellite-analysis workflow used by Rainmaker scientists or operators.
Validating cloud-phase, cloud-top, precipitation, moisture, temperature, or related satellite products against Rainmaker observations.
Developing a bounded retrieval or satellite data product for research or operational use.
What You'll Do: 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 aircraft, UAS, or in-situ measurements.
Quantify detection skill, bias, uncertainty, spatial representativeness, latency, coverage, and failure modes by meteorological regime.
Implement physically motivated, statistical, or ML retrieval improvements when justified by the project and data.
Build documented, reproducible workflows that other Rainmaker scientists can run and extend.
Present findings to satellite scientists, radar scientists, meteorologists, operators, and technical leadership.
Deliver a final artifact such as a collocation dataset, retrieval benchmark, automated data product, error analysis, fusion prototype, or research paper.
What We're Looking For: 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 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 the result carefully.
Comfort working with large, imperfect, multidimensional observational datasets.
High agency and the ability to take responsibility for a bounded workstream while collaborating with experienced researchers.
Clear written and verbal communication.
Availability for full-time, on-site work in El Segundo for the agreed appointment.

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