Software Engineer, Nominal

Internship, Summer 2025

Salary not provided

React

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Java

Kafka

Postgres

D3.js

Next.js

Flink

Parquet

Los Angeles

New York

More information about location

Mission-critical data infrastructure

Open for applications

Mission-critical data infrastructure

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSData AnalysisAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided

React

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Java

Kafka

Postgres

D3.js

Next.js

Flink

Parquet

Los Angeles

New York

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSData AnalysisAutomation

Company mission

To provide a robust, end-to-end solution that simplifies workflows, fosters collaboration, and seamlessly scales with the evolving needs of customers and partners.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You are targeting a 12-week internship in Summer 2025, full-time work starting in 2026
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

Desirable

Relevant Data Technologies: Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Beam, Kafka, Superset, DuckDB, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, Druid, Parquet, InfluxDB
Frontend Technologies: Plotly.js, D3.js
Modern Tech Stack: React, Typescript, Next.js, tRPC, Java, Wasm, WebGL, ZeroMQ, Serverless Functions, Postgres
DevOps Tools & Infrastructure: AWS, K8s, EKS, Helm, FluxCD

What the job involves

Our team includes engineers and operators from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, and NASA, and we’re supported by leading investors like General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and more. We are gaining strong traction in the commercial and government aerospace and defense industrial base, including working directly with the Department of Defense
Dive deep into cutting-edge data infrastructure, focusing on high-frequency, high-volume multi-modal streaming data with transformation and alerting capabilities
Render and visualize mission-critical data in data-dense web applications, often with tight feedback loops with hardware engineers in the field
Quickly take ownership of projects from start to finish, after receiving mentorship from our world-class engineers and domain experts
Have a front-row seat to the evolution of an early-stage company
Watch Nominal grow, onboard new customers, and expand its product offerings, while contributing to our mission of transforming 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, here’s to hoping the company can pull customers away from pre-existing, but more general, workflow and analysis platforms.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Apr 2024

$20m

SERIES A

Nov 2023

$7.5m

SEED

Total funding: $27.5m

Company benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of premiums covered
Unlimited PTO /sick leave
Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
Professional development stipend
Quarterly company retreats

Company HQ

Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

Articles

The Story Behind Haystack’s Investment in Nominal

Nominal moves out of stealth mode to advance mission-critical data analytics

Nominal Raises $7.5M in Seed and $20M in Series A Funding Rounds

Nominal Emerges From Stealth With Backing From General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Founders Fund

Leadership

Jason Hoch

(Co-Founder)

Previously 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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