About the role
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.
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.
What you’ll do:
As a Meteorologist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, you'll work at the 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.
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.
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.