Software Engineer - Internship (Summer 2025)

About Nominal

Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City. We’re focused on building software and data solutions for organizations that test and validate complex hardware systems - think drones, rocket engines, satellites, and nuclear reactors. Our platform helps engineering teams accelerate test data review and analysis, scaling testing campaigns to save time and cut costs.

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.

We are ultimately working toward a shared vision of accelerating hardware engineers’ abilities to push the boundaries of advanced technology safely and efficiently. If you’re excited about this vision as well, come join us!

Please note that Nominal cannot sponsor employment visas (e.g., H-1B, F-1 OPT, etc.) for this position.

About the role

• 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

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You are targeting a 12-week internship in Spring 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

Skills That Supercharge Us

• 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

Benefits/Perks

• Receive mentorship from our world-class team

• Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

• Trips to co-locate with the team across our different offices

• A beginning-of-internship swag bag and an end-of-internship intern gift

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.