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# Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/58792dc4d00351d2

Nominal posts a FDE role to integrate and configure the product in New York, NY and 3 more, at $120,000–$230,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own deployments and operational reliability for Nominal's self-hosted and on-prem infrastructure, including customer-hosted and air-gapped environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Nominal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nominal)

Posted Jun 9, 2026 by Nominal · open on Gem as of Nov 8, 2026

**$120,000–$230,000** New York, NY +3 Full-time

Own deployments and operational reliability for Nominal's self-hosted and on-prem infrastructure, including customer-hosted and air-gapped environments.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$120K–$230K Below the median

Midpoint $175K · median $190K

This job $120K to $230K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Integrates and configures it

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

Travel **Required, amount not stated**

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Both

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in New York, NY · Seattle, WA · +2 more. Could you work in one of these?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY · Seattle, WA · Los Angeles, CA · Austin, TX

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Nominal

Posted by Nominal on Jun 9, 2026

### 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 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 owning deployment of Nominal's software to our most demanding customers, including USG customers operating in restricted environments, writing runbooks, speccing hardware, building deployment collateral, and collaborating with IT teams to satisfy a wide variety of technical requirements.

### 🚀 About the role

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 DevOps, 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.

### 👨🏻💻 What You'll 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

### 🔍 We're Looking For

### 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, etc.)
- 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
- SR-IOV
- 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/Perks

- 🏥 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.

[View posting at Nominal](https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDpzq0AQvXJL5LYtxbXWKsBc)

## About Nominal

Nominal provides connected cloud and edge software for hardware teams to capture, analyze, automate, and operate mission-critical tests.

Series B · 200–500 people

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