Software Engineer - Intern (Summer 2024)
Nominal
About Nominal
Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City that specializes in software and data management products for organizations that test and validate complex physical systems (like drones, planes, rockets, engines, satellites, nuclear reactors, etc.). We are backed by prolific and experienced venture capital firms like Founders Fund, Lux Capital, XYZ, Haystack, Human Capital, BoxGroup, etc., and have raised significant venture funding with strong early traction in both commercial aerospace as well as defense applications with the Department of Defense (DoD).
The Nominal team comes from commercial companies like SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and NASA and is active amongst customers in aerospace, defense, industrial, and advanced energy applications (autonomous aviation, eVTOL/VTOL, flight testing, satellite development, etc.). We are also building and delivering solutions to the United States Air Force (USAF) and are looking to expand use cases across the broader DoD test community.
Our product is a data visualization and computation platform designed to accelerate how engineering teams test and validate hardware systems. We specifically aim to shorten the data review process after running tests and help engineering organizations scale testing campaigns more efficiently and effectively to save time and lower costs. It works by combining heterogeneous data into runs and allowing users to easily build custom visualization and analysis. Users write test logic with interactive computation, and these checks can be applied to historical and future runs to compound learnings. Data sources include telemetry, sensor data, logs, simulations, and other testing metadata like environment, vehicle, part, version, etc.
🚀 About the role
- Quickly drive projects end-to-end, after a period of mentorship from our world-class team
- Learn about the cutting-edge data infrastructure, considering high frequency, high volume, streaming data with transformation and alerting capabilities
- Experience life at an early-stage company!
- Watch Nominal as it grows the team, engages with new customers, and rapidly expands its product offering
🙌 We’d love to hear from you if…
- You are targeting a 12-week internship in Summer 2024, full-time work starting in Summer 2025
- You are an eager learner, curious, and able to unblock yourself but also engage thoughtfully with your mentors and team members
- You don’t shy away from hard problems - they’re exciting!
- You view startup pace as an opportunity to learn more in a shorter period of time
- You are excited by the potential of user interviews and customer meetings
- You are open to travel to co-locate with the team
📚 Technologies that may interest you…
- Relevant data technologies: Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Beam, Kafka, D3.js, Superset, DuckDB, Plotly.js, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, Druid, Parquet, InfluxDB
- Modern technologies: Typescript, Next.js, tRPC, Java, Wasm, WebGL, ZeroMQ, serverless functions, React, Postgres
- DevOps tools and infrastructure: AWS, K8s, EKS, Helm, FluxCD
✨ Benefits/Perks
- Receive mentorship from our world-class team
- Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Trips to colocate with the team across our different offices
- A beginning-of-internship Swag Bag and an end-of-internship intern gift 😄
Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway!