Mission Operations Engineer — Deploy, Train & Support

Nominal; New York, Los Angeles (NY, CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health insurance coverage

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

401k Plan

In-office hardware lab with project $-

Job summary

Nominal is hiring a Mission Ops Engineer student on track to graduate Summer 2027 or sooner to help deploy our platform into customers' test and operations environments—propulsion test stands, satellite mission ops, flight test, and related high-stakes settings.

You will train users, troubleshoot in real time, and build relationships that translate deployments into long-term partnerships, while occasionally traveling on-site with customers.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or completed an engineering degree with graduation Summer 2027 or later.
• Strong programming ability in Python or similar language for real-world data work.
• Comfort with hardware systems, test stands, or aerospace/robotics contexts.

Responsibilities

• Write code to ingest and normalize data from test stands, DAQs, telemetry streams, and hardware sources.
• Build custom apps, dashboards, and workflows on Nominal's platform for each customer.
• Own outcomes for customer accounts: perform discovery and deliver durable solutions.
• Build trusted relationships with engineers and operators, and train their teams for daily use.
• Debug issues across the stack in real time and know when to escalate.
• Turn cross-customer patterns into input for product and engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Data ingestion

Telemetry data

Troubleshooting

Customer relationships

Dashboard building

Tools

LabVIEW

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Nominal is hiring a Mission Ops Engineer student on track to graduate Summer 2027 or sooner to help deploy our platform into customers' test and operations environments—propulsion test stands, satellite mission ops, flight test, and related high-stakes settings.

You will train users, troubleshoot in real time, and build relationships that translate deployments into long-term partnerships, while occasionally traveling on-site with customers.