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A Cloud Seeding job involves enhancing precipitation by dispersing substances like silver iodide or salt particles into clouds to encourage rainfall or snowfall. Professionals in this field, often meteorologists or atmospheric scientists, analyze weather patterns and deploy seeding materials using aircraft, ground-based generators, or rockets. Their goal is to increase water availability for agriculture, reservoirs, and drought-affected areas. The role requires expertise in meteorology, chemistry, and aviation operations.

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Field Operations Specialist

Rainmaker Technology Corporation

Mammoth Lakes, CA • Remote

$65K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision

Re-posted 9 days ago

Job description

Department: Field Operations

Reports To: Program Manager

Type: Contract (concludes April 30, 2027)

Salary: Hourly, $65,000k annual equivalent + overtime

About Rainmaker

Rainmaker is pioneering a modern cloud seeding system to address water scarcity and inclement weather

challenges worldwide. We develop and integrate radar validation, weather-resistant UAS, numerical weather

modeling, and sustainable seeding agents into an effective precipitation enhancement solution.

Rainmaker is building something that hasn't existed before. If you're the kind of person who gets energized

by hard problems, new territory, and the opportunity to do work that has real impact on water resources, we

want to hear from you.

About the Role

It's 10:24 PM. You were waiting for the call.

Your phone buzzes. Rainmaker's meteorologists have identified an overnight seeding window within the mountain range of your area of operations. Conditions are ideal. You've got about ten hours to turn supercooled liquid water into the snow that will eventually melt and feed into the aquifers, farms, and communities that need water now more than ever.

At headquarters, your team scouts the mission and loads the F-150 with drones, generators, laptops, and a Starlink. Your dog jumps in the cab with you, ready for adventure.

The Agile Deployment Vehicle smells like Red Bull as your crew heads north towards the mountains. The temperature outside is dropping. Single digits by the time you reach the launch site.

Your fingers are clumsy with the cold as you run pre-flight checks, but you've done it enough times that your hands know what to do.

Your drone lifts into the sky, then out of sight.

What happens next is invisible. At 10,000 feet, the drone releases seeding particles into supercooled clouds, coaxing ice into existence, nudging the atmosphere toward something it was almost ready to do on its own.
You are making it snow.

Over the next few hours, precipitation falls across the mountains. Snowpack deepens. In just one mission, your team has created millions of gallons of water for a place that has suffered from drought for far too long.


You and your team were the reason.

As dawn breaks, you pack up and drive home before sunrise to sleep, ready to do it again when given the chance.

You are a Rainmaker Field Operations Specialist. This is the job.

Become a Rainmaker. 

Qualifications Required

  • Willingness and ability to work in remote, physically demanding, and weather-exposed environments

  • Strong attention to detail and discipline in following procedures

  • Reliable, self-directed, and able to work with minimal supervision

  • Ability to work effectively as part of a small field team

  • Comfort with frequent travel, including to remote or international locations

  • Valid driver's license

Preferred

  • Experience in field operations, aviation, military, emergency management, construction, or similar hands-on environments

  • Mechanical or technical aptitude, including equipment maintenance and troubleshooting

  • Experience operating or supporting UAS

  • FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate

  • Experience handling logistics, inventory, or supply

  • Familiarity with GIS tools and spatial data (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth)

  • Wilderness or backcountry experience

Rainmaker participates in E-Verify. To learn more, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit

E-Verify.gov.

Rainmaker is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Rainmaker is governed on the basis of

merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion,

gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity,

marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

No recruiting agencies.


$65,000 - $65,000 a year
Benefits:
  • Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance)
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