Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

New York, NY
• Los Angeles, CA
• Austin, TX
• Seattle, WA

Engineering, Product, Design | In office | Full-time

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, safety, and confidence.

We’re looking for a Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer to join our team building high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure for advanced hardware systems. You’ll be on the front lines deploying Nominal’s software to our most demanding customers, including USG customers operating in restricted environments, owning runbooks, building deployment collateral, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with customer hardware engineers and the IT teams they need to satisfy.

Nominal’s self-hosted and on-prem deployments are becoming increasingly critical to our customers’ success. As adoption grows, we’re balancing customer implementations, reliability improvements, FedRAMP readiness, and infrastructure modernization, all while supporting deployments in highly constrained environments.

We’re looking for someone who can become our in‑house expert on Linux systems, bare metal infrastructure, and deployment reliability. You’ll help customers deploy and operate Nominal in their own environments while also driving the internal improvements that make those deployments more repeatable, observable, and scalable.

This role sits at the intersection of Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, and customer-facing infrastructure. One day you might be debugging networking issues on a customer rack. The next, you might be building provisioning automation, improving Kubernetes upgrade paths, or implementing observability features that eliminate future support burdens.

You’ll be a force multiplier for the team, reducing context switching, accelerating customer deployments, and helping us build a world‑class self‑hosted platform.

• Serve as a technical expert for customer-hosted and air-gapped deployments
• Travel onsite to support critical customer implementations when additional technical expertise is required
• Troubleshoot Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure issues in production environments
• Partner directly with customer IT, infrastructure, and security teams to gather requirements and ensure successful deployments
• Build and improve deployment tooling, automation, and operational processes
• Improve reliability, observability, and maintainability across our self-hosted infrastructure
• Develop deployment documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
• Help shape Nominal’s long-term strategy for self-hosted and regulated deployments

Must Have:

• Strong Linux systems expertise
• Experience operating and troubleshooting production infrastructure
• Background in Dev Ops, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Ability to independently debug complex systems across multiple layers of the stack
• Comfort working directly with customers and external stakeholders
• Willingness to travel for customer deployments
• Strong ownership mentality and ability to…