Cloud, Deployment & DevSecOps Engineer

Nominal is the Hardware Intelligence Platform: the software and AI layer that hardware engineering teams use 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. The platform captures data at the source; keeps a durable engineering record across telemetry, video, logs, documents, and simulations; runs and controls tests and live operations; and turns that evidence into answers engineers can trust. It runs wherever the hardware runs: in the cloud, on-prem, on a bench, on a range, or in an air-gapped facility. We are defining a new category at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and physical engineering, and the people we hire get to decide what it looks like.

Our customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, AeroVironment, Wisk Aero, 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 maintained. We’re looking for engineers who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation of world-changing hardware possible.

As a Cloud, Deployments & DevSecOps Engineer, you’ll join the team that secures the platform hardware and defense teams rely on to ingest, analyze, and act on their test and operations data. We deploy across AWS, AWS GovCloud, customer-hosted clouds, and on-premises environments, and you’ll own the security controls, detection, and compliance evidence that make those deployments trustworthy for customers, including those with federal requirements. You’ll work directly with engineering to build these controls into how we deploy and operate.

This role is ideal for someone who pairs deep AWS security experience with hands-on cloud engineering, and who would rather build guardrails and automation that engineers adopt than review from the sidelines. You’ll shape which security problems we take on and in what order, with little oversight.

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