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title: 'Rainmaker Fellow, Radar Science at Rainmaker Technology Corporation'
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# Rainmaker Fellow, Radar Science at Rainmaker Technology Corporation

- **Company:** Rainmaker Technology Corporation
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/make-rain/4cac0840-20c6-4d20-9b66-0eefc109e6a9

## Job description

## About Rainmaker

Rainmaker is pioneering a modern cloud-seeding system to increase precipitation, improve water availability, and address severe-weather challenges. We combine atmospheric science, weather-resistant UAS, radar and satellite observations, numerical weather prediction, novel sensing systems, and sustainable seeding technologies to design, operate, and evaluate precipitation-enhancement programs. Radar is central to how Rainmaker observes storms, targets operations, evaluates atmospheric evolution, and learns from field programs. Fellows work with scientists and operators who use the resulting analysis in real decisions.

## About the Fellowship

The Rainmaker Radar Science Fellowship is a paid, full-time research appointment for exceptional undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, recent graduates, and other early-career researchers. You will join Rainmaker's radar-science group and work alongside our researchers on a scoped project drawn from the team's current research priorities and defined in close collaboration with your research lead or mentor. Project matching will consider available data, mentor capacity, team needs, and your background. You will take responsibility for a concrete workstream while contributing to ongoing analysis, scientific review, and operational support across the radar team.

Examples of the Work Fellowship projects change with Rainmaker's research and operational priorities. Examples of the work our radar team may pursue include:

- Creating a radar-aircraft collocation atlas to investigate which radar structures and dual-polarization features contain useful information about measured supercooled liquid water.
- Extending and validating an MRMS/MESH hail-event catalog and storm-object tracker.
- Building a carefully controlled radar evaluation framework for cloud-seeding operations
- Automating an existing radar-analysis workflow used by Rainmaker scientists and operators.

## What You'll Do

- 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.

## 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 radar meteorology, atmospheric science, signal processing, remote sensing, image analysis, geospatial data, or a closely related field.
- Ability to formulate a scientific question, implement an analysis, and validate the result carefully.
- Comfort working with large, imperfect 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.

What Success Looks Like By the end of the fellowship, you will have answered a clearly defined scientific or operational question and delivered a result the radar team can continue using. Depending on the project, that might be a validated dataset, novel retrieval, tracking system, analysis framework, or automated operational workflow.

Fellowship Details

- Paid, full-time, and on-site in El Segundo, CA or Norman, OK.
- Three month appointment
- Rolling applications and project-specific start dates.
- Attached directly to Rainmaker's radar-science group with a named mentor.
- Possible consideration for future full-time roles, without any promise or expectation of conversion.
- Publication may be supported when it does not compromise Rainmaker intellectual property or operational know-how.

## Compensation and Benefits

$8,000 per month

Benefits:

- Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance)
- Lunch provided when working in-office and a fully stocked kitchenette
- Free EV charging at the HQ

## About Rainmaker Technology Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rainmaker Technology Corporation uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase precipitation, restore ecosystems, and fight drought.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: RNK) – also described as privately held in some sources; likely a recent public listing with small revenue and high growth.
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing / Weather Modification
- **Target customers**: Governments, water districts, agricultural operators, and environmental restoration organizations (B2G/B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Make rain. Make snow. Make Earth habitable.” – ending water scarcity with next-generation cloud seeding.

## Products & Services
- **[Next-Generation Cloud Seeding System]**: Integrated system of advanced radar, unmanned aircraft (drones), and a cutting-edge weather awareness platform. Used to deliver moderate, predictable increases in precipitation. Aimed at restoring ecosystems, recharging aquifers, and reducing wildfire risk.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding of $31.3M (LinkedIn) or $73.9M (CB Insights) – conflicting reports. Last funding round: Series B of $41M (CB Insights) or Series A of $25M led by Lowercarbon Capital (LinkedIn).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $7.3M (LinkedIn); Total Funding $31.3M (LinkedIn) / $73.9M (CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lowercarbon Capital, Starship Ventures, UP Partners, 1517 Fund, Long Journey Ventures, Garry Tan, and 18+ others (CB Insights).
- **Growth Signals**: 78 employees (+117.4% YoY); 15,285 LinkedIn followers (+148.5% YoY); active job postings: 35 (+337.5% YoY); first U.S. commercial cloud-seeding operation with measured proof of generated precipitation (19 million gallons in 3 hours with 2 drones, August 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scientific Rigor**: Embedded research organization (Rainmaker Fellows) dedicated to validating results and transparency.
- **First-Mover Proof**: Demonstrated measurable, unambiguous precipitation increase in a commercial operation (USA Today coverage).
- **Integrated Technology**: Combines radar, drones, and weather platform – a modern, proprietary system vs. legacy cloud seeding methods.
- **Location**: Based in El Segundo, CA, part of a deep-tech ecosystem with strong engineering talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale operations**: Expanding into new geographies (Australia, Southern Europe, DACH, India, Middle East); hiring directors of business development for multiple regions.
- **Research & Development**: Launched Rainmaker Fellowship (3-month program) to advance atmospheric science and weather modification.
- **Regulatory & Public Trust**: Committed to transparency and public education about cloud seeding capabilities and limitations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “an engineering organization and a microcosm of El Segundo's spirit” – iterate quickly, solve the most important problem of our age.
- **Work Environment**: On-site roles in El Segundo, CA, with seasonal field positions across the western U.S. (Utah, Nevada, etc.).
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling headcount (117% YoY), high-visibility work with real-world environmental impact.
- **Perks**: Opportunity to work on “physical technology” in a deep-tech renaissance; hands-on with drones, radar, and weather systems.
- **Values**: Stewardship of the natural world, scientific rigor, and making freshwater available to all.

## Sources
1. [rainmaker.com](https://www.rainmaker.com/)
2. [jobs.lever.co/make-rain](https://jobs.lever.co/make-rain)
3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rainmaker-technology-corporation)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rainmaker-4)

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