Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

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 such as Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus, REGENT, and performance engineering teams such as Pratt Miller Motorsports. We also work with 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, and our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies. About the Role Nominal’s self-hosted and on-prem deployments are becoming increasingly critical to our customers’ success. As adoption grows, we balance customer implementations, reliability improvements, FedRAMP readiness, and infrastructure modernization, all while supporting deployments in highly constrained environments. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and customer-facing infrastructure. What'll You Do 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 DevOps, 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 operate in ambiguous environments Strong Pluses Active security clearance or ability and willingness to obtain and maintain one Experience with Kubernetes in production environments GitOps workflows and tooling (Flux, Helm, Kustomize) Infrastructure as Code experience Datacenter operations experience Hardware procurement, provisioning, or lifecycle management Networking expertise (routing, switching, troubleshooting, performance tuning) Linux kernel, networking, or performance optimization experience Security-focused infrastructure experience including TLS and certificate management Experience supporting air-gapped, classified, or highly regulated environments Skills That Supercharge Us Bare Metal & Provisioning PXE IPMI BMC iLO / iDRAC MAAS Tinkerbell Metal provisioning workflows Systems Linux internals Kernel troubleshooting NUMA RDMA

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eBPF Networking BGP Routing Low-latency networking NIC offloading DPDK Storage Ceph NVMe Distributed storage systems Infrastructure Kubernetes GitOps Datacenter automation Rack provisioning Hardware orchestration On-prem infrastructure operations Benefits 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance Unlimited PTO and sick leave Free lunch, snacks, and coffee Professional Development Stipend In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend Annual company retreat All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. ITAR Requirements To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here. Compensation The base pay range for this role is $120,000 – $230,000 per year. #J-18808-Ljbffr Nominal