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Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP

$76K - $95K/yr

S. location on the West Coast, ideally near our growing Seattle office, as either a fully remote ... * Assist with onboarding and orientation programs for new attorneys and staff. Required ...

Mercor

ML Research Engineer - PhD

San Francisco, CA · Remote

$75 - $90/hr

Remote Commitment: 20+ hours/week Role Responsibilities * Attempt open-ended machine learning ... Use preferred tools, including IDEs and AI coding assistants like Cursor , Claude Code , and ...

Vesync

Registered Dietitian (Temp)

Tustin, CA · On-site +1

$35 - $38/hr

... Research Assistant. In this role, you will play a crucial part in supporting the Vesync product ... Location: * Remote - with occasional office visit to Tustin office. Salary: * $35 - $38 / hour ...

Vesync

Registered Dietitian (Temp)

Tustin, CA · On-site +1

$35 - $38/hr

... Research Assistant. In this role, you will play a crucial part in supporting the Vesync product ... Location: * Remote - with occasional office visit to Tustin office. Salary: * $35 - $38 / hour ...

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What is a remote physics research assistant?

Remote Physics Research Assistants are individuals who support physics research projects while working from a location outside of a traditional laboratory or campus, often from home. They assist with data analysis, literature reviews, computational modeling, and preparing reports or presentations. These roles rely heavily on digital communication and online collaboration tools, allowing assistants to contribute to scientific progress without being physically present. Remote research assistants often work with professors, research teams, or organizations on a contract or part-time basis. This flexibility makes it possible for more people to gain research experience and contribute to projects from anywhere in the world.

How does a remote physics research assistant typically collaborate with principal investigators and team members when working off-site?

Remote Physics Research Assistants regularly engage with principal investigators and fellow researchers through scheduled virtual meetings, collaborative online platforms, and real-time communication tools. While much of the data analysis or literature review is done independently, sharing findings, discussing methodologies, and troubleshooting are highly interactive processes. Clear communication and proactive updates are key to ensuring alignment on research objectives and deadlines. Most teams use shared drives and version control software to maintain transparency and track project progress, fostering a supportive and cohesive remote work environment.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a remote physics research assistant, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Remote Physics Research Assistant, you need a strong background in physics, data analysis, and research methodologies, typically supported by at least a bachelor's degree in physics or a related field. Familiarity with technical tools such as Python, MATLAB, LaTeX, and remote collaboration platforms (e.g., Zoom, Slack), as well as experience with scientific databases, is often required. Attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and effective written and verbal communication are critical soft skills for excelling in this remote and collaborative role. These skills are crucial for conducting accurate research, efficiently sharing results, and contributing to a distributed scientific team.

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Rainmaker Fellow, Satellite Remote Sensing

Rainmaker Technology Corporation

El Segundo, CA • On-site, Remote

$62K - $81K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision

Posted 28 days ago

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.

Satellite observations provide the coverage Rainmaker needs to understand clouds across large regions, while our radar, aircraft, UAS, and in-situ sensors provide unusually valuable observations for validation and improvement.

About the Fellowship

The Rainmaker Satellite Remote Sensing 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 satellite remote-sensing 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 computational workstream while contributing to ongoing retrieval, validation, automation, and operational-support work across the team.

Examples of the Work

Fellowship projects change with Rainmaker's research and operational priorities. Examples of the work our satellite remote-sensing team may pursue include:

  • 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.
What Success Looks Like

By the end of the fellowship, you will have answered a clearly defined scientific or operational question and delivered a trusted computational result the satellite remote-sensing team can continue using. Depending on the project, that might be a quality-controlled validation dataset, retrieval benchmark or improvement, error analysis, fusion prototype, automated data product, or operational workflow.

Success does not require a positive result. A rigorous conclusion about what the available observations can and cannot support can be as valuable as an improved retrieval.

Fellowship Details
  • Paid, full-time, and on-site in El Segundo.
  • Three-to-six-month appointment, with four months as the standard duration.
  • Rolling applications and project-specific start dates.
  • Attached directly to Rainmaker's satellite-science group with a named mentor.
  • Consideration for future full-time roles
  • 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
$8,000 - $8,000 a month
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