Rainmaker Technology Corporation
Optomechanical Engineer, Atmospheric Instrumentation
El Segundo, CA
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Thermal AnalysisGD&TRoboticsMechanical DesignAerospace EngineeringSensorsMicroscopyResearchCommunicationCollaborationTolerance Analysis
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About the role
- Your first project will be a compact UAS-borne cloud-particle imaging instrument that measures particle size distribution, phase, and concentration inside clouds.
- Within your first nine months, the system must successfully fly and produce in-cloud measurements validated against reference instrumentation, followed by production deployment during the next cloud-seeding season.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the illumination, imaging, sampling-volume, and precision-mechanical architecture of an airborne cloud-particle imaging instrument.
- Perform optical layout, tolerance analysis, alignment planning, stray-light analysis, resolution and sampling calculations, and performance verification.
- Design rugged mechanical structures and enclosures that preserve alignment under UAS vibration, shock, temperature variation, moisture, icing, contamination, aerodynamic loading, and handling.
- Build, align, calibrate, and troubleshoot benchtop and flight prototypes personally.
- Develop calibration fixtures, controlled targets, alignment procedures, and acceptance tests that can be repeated across production units.
- Support ground tests, flight tests, reference-instrument comparisons, failure analysis, and rapid design iteration.
- Transition the prototype into a design that Rainmaker can manufacture, calibrate, maintain, and deploy repeatedly.
Requirements
- A degree in optical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, aerospace engineering, or a related field, or equivalent evidence of exceptional optomechanical ability.
- Hands-on experience designing, assembling, aligning, and troubleshooting optical systems.
- Experience translating optical performance requirements into buildable mechanical hardware.
- Ability to reason about imaging resolution, field of view, depth, illumination, sensor selection, alignment sensitivity, and measurement uncertainty.
- Experience designing hardware for thermal stability, vibration resistance, contamination control, and repeatable alignment.
- Comfort working in a laboratory and shop, using measurement equipment, fixtures, hand tools, and rapid-prototyping methods personally.
- If you have a project, system, experiment, paper, portfolio, or technical write-up that shows how you approach difficult problems, include it with your application and tell us what you personally contributed.
Nice to have
- Experience with digital in-line holography, particle imaging, high-speed cameras, lasers, microscopy, lidar, aerosol or cloud instrumentation, or other quantitative optical measurements.
- Experience with optical-design and tolerance-analysis software such as OpticStudio, CODE V, or equivalent tools.
- Familiarity with cloud droplets, ice particles, aerosol measurement, or atmospheric sampling.
- Experience with image-sensor characterization, high-rate data acquisition, triggering, timing, synchronization, or embedded control.
- Experience designing calibration equipment and production alignment or acceptance-test fixtures.
- Experience moving a scientific prototype into low-volume production.
- What Success Looks Like
- Within your first nine months, your optomechanical system will have flown successfully and supported validated in-cloud measurements against reference instrumentation.
Skills
- Research and engineering at Rainmaker are attached directly to operations.
Benefits
- Significant stock options with high potential upside as an early-stage company
- Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance)
- Paid parental leave for both parents
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