Deployment Systems Engineer
Systems EngineerInfrastructure & Cloud
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Able to work directly with customers on complex technical issues, build trust, and navigate difficult tradeoffs while maintaining clear boundaries and expectations.
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Systems EngineerInfrastructure & Cloud
About Nominal
Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.
Nominal is building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Hardware engineering teams use Nominal to simulate, test, manufacture, and operate the physical systems that keep the world moving, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation energy systems and robotics.
Our customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, Wisk Aero, Pratt Miller Motorsports, Antares, and Shinkei Systems, amongst others, alongside programs within the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Tesla, 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 a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.
Some of the world’s leading technology investors, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and Insight Partners, are backing Nominal’s ambition to change how machines are built and operated. We’re looking for engineers who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation of world-changing hardware possible.
We’re looking for a Deployment Systems Specialist to join our team building high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure for advanced hardware systems. You’ll tackle high-scale, mission-critical problems, deploy and monitor complex distributed systems, and own projects end-to-end, all while collaborating with a team of top engineers. This role includes hands-on work in air-gapped environments, frequent travel to end-user sites, and requires U.S. TS Clearance eligibility.
About the Role
~1 min read- Deploy & support: Deploy Nominal in restricted and self-hosted environments. Own runbooks, deployment documentation, and customer onboarding while troubleshooting issues in the field.
- Work onsite: Travel to customer locations including test ranges, manufacturing facilities, and air-gapped data centers. Partner directly with customer engineering and IT teams to ensure successful deployments.
- Scale deployments: Build repeatable deployment patterns across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Reduce complexity and improve reliability as we grow.
- Drive priorities: Identify the highest-impact infrastructure and deployment challenges. Surface risks early and help shape roadmap priorities.
- Improve the platform: Build observability, automation, and infrastructure tooling that make deployments easier to operate and support.
- Make sound tradeoffs: Balance speed, reliability, flexibility, and long-term maintainability when making technical decisions.
- Own outcomes: Take initiative, solve problems, and know when to escalate. Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.
- Infrastructure and deployment expertise: Experience operating production infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms. Comfortable in Linux environments, the command line, Kubernetes, and troubleshooting independently.
- On-prem experience: Hands-on experience deploying and supporting systems in on-prem, edge, or restricted environments. Experience with government or classified environments is a plus.
- Compliance awareness: Familiarity with security, compliance, and accreditation requirements, including auditability, system hardening, and regulated deployments.
- Customer-facing skills: Able to work directly with customers on complex technical issues, build trust, and navigate difficult tradeoffs while maintaining clear boundaries and expectations.
- Process builder: Proven ability to turn operational challenges into repeatable processes, documentation, and deployment standards that scale.
- Systems mindset: Able to think holistically about infrastructure while digging into root causes and technical details when needed.
- Ownership and execution: Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable working across teams to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments.
- Security requirements: This position requires you to currently possess and be able to maintain a U.S. security clearance, in order to meet U.S. regulatory eligibility requirements for the access to classified information associated with this role.
- Unix/Linux systems
- Kubernetes / Kuecutl
- MinIO / S3 Object Storage
- Postgres
- Grafana / Prometheus / Loki / Mimir observability stack
- Infrastructure as code
What We Offer
~1 min read✓🏥 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
Location & Eligibility
Where is the job
Austin, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US
About this job
- Pay per year
- $120,000–$230,000 a year
- 18% above the $148,457 median for Systems Engineer jobs on Jobera (1,470 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- 833 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- July 29, 2024
- First seen
- September 26, 2026
- Last seen
- November 10, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 43
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 32%
- Scored at
- November 9, 2026
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