<div dir="ltr"><div>Job Posting Link:</div><div><a href="https://jobs.lever.co/roadrunner-studios/715632b4-8909-4099-8f44-839dfde2437f">https://jobs.lever.co/roadrunner-studios/715632b4-8909-4099-8f44-839dfde2437f</a></div><div><br></div><div>Overview: </div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(81,83,87);font-family:Lato;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Roadrunner Venture Studios is the nation’s leading platform for founding breakthrough ventures in frontier technology. We partner with scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to turn deep tech into real companies across energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, quantum computing, aerospace, advanced materials, AI, and high-performance computing.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(81,83,87);font-family:Lato;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Roadrunner Venture Studios is recruiting an Operational Meteorologist  for one of our portfolio companies developing rainfall enhancement technology. Roadrunner is the nation’s first venture studio purpose-built for hard science company creation. The studio works with national labs, research institutions, and venture capital firms to turn research in advanced energy, robotics, precision manufacturing, and quantum into scalable, venture-backable companies.</span></p></div><div>What you'll do: </div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:9.74399pt 0px 0pt;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(81,83,87);font-family:Lato;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);line-height:1.2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">As a Meteorologist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, you'll work at the </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">intersection of forecasting and field operations, translating atmospheric data into operational decisions for science and field teams. This is a hands-on role for someone comfortable with daily forecasting and field reality and energized by a startup environment. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:7.00201pt 52.9192pt 0pt 0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(81,83,87);font-family:Lato;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Before and during deployments, you'll produce daily and event-based forecasts, identify favorable and unfavorable windows using observations, model output, satellite imagery, radar, soundings, and surface data, and provide live weather monitoring for field teams across New Mexico and other operating regions. You'll help design and refine field observation protocols and keep data quality tight. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:7.002pt 49.3768pt 0pt 0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(81,83,87);font-family:Lato;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">After deployments, you'll analyze meteorological datasets, compare forecast expectations against observed atmospheric behavior, and feed findings back into operational criteria. You'll work with the modeling team on WRF, GFS, HRRR, and similar systems, evaluating forecast performance, identifying improvements, and supporting the development of internal forecasting tools, dashboards, and data workflows. </span></p></div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.4;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(81,83,87);margin:17.5px 0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)">What we’re looking for:</h3><div class="gmail-posting-requirements gmail-plain-list" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(81,83,87);font-family:Lato;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246)"><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style-position:revert;list-style-type:none"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The right candidate may come from operational meteorology, atmospheric science, applied forecasting, field research, aviation weather, hydrology, </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">numerical weather prediction, or a related background. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bachelor's degree or higher in meteorology, atmospheric science, physics, environmental science, hydrology, or a related field. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience in operational forecasting, applied meteorology, field meteorology, aviation weather, hydrology, or atmospheric research. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience with weather models such as Weather Research and Forecasting, Global Forecast System, High Resolution Rapid Refresh, or similar systems. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Familiarity with meteorological data formats such as NetCDF and GRIB. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Working knowledge of Python, geographic information systems, or other data analysis tools. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience with field campaigns, instrument deployment, or environmental monitoring. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience in the Southwest United States, especially New Mexico. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience with cloud microphysics, convective clouds, precipitation </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">processes, or weather modification. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience working with remote sensing datasets. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px 8px 17px;padding:0px;list-style:revert;line-height:1.4994"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Experience building lightweight forecasting tools, scripts, dashboards, or </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">automated data pipelines.</span></li></ul></li></ul><div style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This role is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We expect regular in person work with the operations team, field teams, and deployment hardware. Some travel will be required.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="font-weight:600">Delila Baldonado</span></div><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(36,36,36)">
Executive Assistant & Office Operations<br>
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