Software Engineer Internship, Nominal
Summer 2026
$10,000 a month
Unified industrial data stack
Open for applications
Unified industrial data stack
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$10,000 a month
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide the tools and infrastructure engineers need to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.
Role
Who you are
- You are targeting a 12-week internship in Summer 2026, full-time work starting in 2027
- You have a personal passion for contributing to the future of aerospace, energy, and national security
- You have exceptional hands-on experience and strong core engineering skills – whether through internships, personal projects, or academic work - and can explain how they work down to the smallest implementation decisions
- Your peers would describe you as extremely resourceful, obsessed, and grounded
What the job involves
- We’re looking for students with solid engineering fundamentals interested in a Summer 2026 internship and on track to graduate in Summer 2027 or sooner
- As a software engineering intern at Nominal, you’ll have an unparalleled opportunity to work closely with world-class engineers solving high-impact problems.
- As part of an early-stage company, you’ll help us grow, launch new products, and take on exciting challenges.
- You’ll have a front-row seat as our customers test and validate complex hardware systems like nuclear reactors, rockets, and supersonic aircraft
- Dive deep into cutting-edge data infrastructure, focusing on high-frequency, high-volume multi-modal hardware data
- Design and build new features in close collaboration with our customers, often working directly with our users in the field
- Quickly take ownership of projects from start to finish, while receiving mentorship from our world-class engineers and domain experts
- Take the driver’s seat at an early-stage company, helping Nominal grow, onboarding new customers, and expanding its product offerings, while contributing to our mission of accelerating the testing and validation landscape for complex hardware systems
Our take
Whilst leading workflow platforms such as Monday and Basecamp are designed for general use, teams in more specific industries may benefit from experiences designed for their sector. Nominal has built a data analysis platform and workflow system tailored to the needs of engineering teams managing complex machines in industries such as aerospace and defense.
Nominal’s platform caters to engineering teams who develop, validate and monitor hardware, enabling them to build observability and control over mission-critical machines. It automates routine tasks and streamlines collaboration between team members, ensuring that all stages of a machine’s development have rigorous oversight.
Having only come out of stealth in 2024, Nominal’s path to market has been accelerated by several rounds of funding. This will be used to expand operations and business reach as it attempts to cut into a competitive market. With its target audience pitch well articulated, the company has become the fastest-growing software platform in hardware development with 6X customer growth across aerospace, defense, energy, robotics and manufacturing.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2025
$75m
SERIES B
Apr 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $102.5m
Company benefits
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
- Unlimited paid vacation
- 12-weeks parental leave
- Strong in-office [ATX, LA, NYC] culture
- Gourmet lunch provided daily
- Work-station stipend
- 401K
- Learning & development stipend
Company HQ
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Jason Hoch
(Co-Founder)Previously a Software Engineer/Engineering Lead at Vercel, Newfront Insurance and Palantir Technologies.
Cameron McCord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Investor at Lux Capital. Was also Head of Defense at Saildrone, Advisor at Applied Intuition, and worked in Product and Growth at Anduril Industries.
Bryce Strauss
(Co-Founder)Was an MBS and MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School, as well as Summer Associate at The Engine and a member of the Executive Leadership Development Programme at Lockheed Martin.
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