Mission Dev Engineer - Internship (Summer 2027)
Role Overview
Nominal seeks students for a Summer 2027 Mission Dev, or forward-deployed software engineering, internship.
Interns work directly with engineers building and testing complex hardware systems such as nuclear reactors, rockets, and supersonic aircraft.
The role combines hands-on software engineering with product judgment, user engagement, and iterative delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Nominal
Nominal builds a connected test and operations platform for advanced hardware systems, including spacecraft, autonomous vehicles, and defense programs.
Its platform helps hardware engineering teams ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across development phases.
The Role
Nominal seeks students for a Summer 2027 Mission Dev, or forward-deployed software engineering, internship.
Interns work directly with engineers building and testing complex hardware systems such as nuclear reactors, rockets, and supersonic aircraft.
The role combines hands-on software engineering with product judgment, user engagement, and iterative delivery.
What You'll Do
- Work with customer engineers to understand testing and analysis workflows and identify software problems to solve.
- Design and build integrations, data pipelines, and applications that connect Nominal to customer systems.
- Help users work with high-frequency, high-volume hardware data.
- Own projects from problem understanding through building, deployment, and support with mentorship.
- Deliver working software early and iterate quickly from user feedback.
- Bring customer learnings to product and engineering teams to create capabilities that benefit multiple customers.
Candidate Profile
- Be on track to graduate by Summer 2028 or sooner and be open to a full-time role afterward.
- Have strong engineering fundamentals and hands-on software-building experience from internships, personal projects, or academic work.
- Want to work directly with software users and understand whether delivered solutions make a difference.
- Be excited by open-ended problems, unfamiliar systems, and delivering solutions into use.
- Show passion for solving challenging problems and contributing to critical infrastructure.
Benefits and Perks
- Receive mentorship from the engineering team.
- Travel to co-locate with the team across different offices.
- Receive free lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks.
- Receive an internship-start swag bag, end-of-internship gift, and access to an in-office hardware lab with a USD 250 project stipend.
ITAR Requirements
- Applicants must meet U.S. export-regulation eligibility requirements for ITAR-controlled work or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorization.
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