Rainmaker Technology Corporation · El Segundo, CA
Rainmaker's vehicle software team builds the software that operates its cloud-seeding vehicles, connecting flight control, onboard computing, sensors, payloads, and ground operations. The role owns vehicle software from the operator interface to onboard mission execution, including ground stations, mission planning, failsafes, sensing, and autonomy. Stack includes Rust onboard services and ground-station backends, React/TypeScript in Electron, and PX4 flight-control integration over MAVLink.
Make it rain. Make Snow. Make Earth Habitable.
Rainmaker builds and deploys audacious technologies that work with nature to create an abundant, habitable planet. We are modernizing proven cloud-seeding science with weather-resistant UAS, radar and satellite observations, numerical weather prediction, novel sensing and validation systems, and sustainable seeding technologies. We are building an integrated system to make more freshwater available to farms, ecosystems, and communities.
Our ambition is bold, but we pursue it with humility. We take on difficult problems in the real world with technical rigor, grit, integrity, and an openness to learning and course-correcting. We are hiring individuals with evidence of exceptional ability. If you want to build systems that endure, restore, and deliver the future we were promised, we want to hear from you.
The vehicle software team builds the software that operates Rainmaker’s cloud-seeding vehicles, connecting flight control, onboard computing, sensors, payloads, and ground operations. We work closely with electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and flight operations teams to turn new hardware into reliable systems that can be built, deployed, and operated at scale. Our goal is to make every vehicle a dependable tool for delivering more freshwater where it is needed.
Compensation: USD 120,000 – 197,000 per year salary