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Mission Operations Engineer - Internship (Summer 2027)

Nominal · New York, United States · On-site

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About Nominal

Nominal powers mission-critical engineering with advanced data infrastructure, real-time observability, and analysis tools — all in one collaborative platform. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

We're looking for students with solid engineering fundamentals who are interested in a 12-week Summer 2027 internship and on track to graduate by Summer 2028. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Write scripts and tooling to deploy, configure, and connect customer data to Nominal's platform
  • Sit in on customer conversations and training sessions to learn how operators use our tools day to day
  • Help troubleshoot issues customers run into and document the fixes for the team
  • Turn what you observe in the field into structured feedback for the product team
  • Own a self-contained project over the summer that improves a specific part of a customer's workflow
More about this role

About Nominal

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders like Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus and REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports, alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs where failure isn’t an option. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed,...

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