Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

http://www.nostics.com/

About the company

Nostics is a biotech diagnostics startup building rapid infectious-disease testing, combining nanotechnology, photonics, and machine learning. The company positions the product as point-of-care diagnostics, with a cartridge-plus-instrument system and software. Public materials describe development work alongside regulated pathways such as IVDR and FDA design controls. Nostics is based in Amsterdam and also lists a presence in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Locations and presence

Nostics lists Amsterdam as the main location for roles and the company headquarters. The company also lists a US presence in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Palpable Score

56.0

/ 100

Nostics offers a real entry point via a clearly defined technical internship, plus some candidate-friendly signals like accessibility notes and equal-opportunity language. The score is held back by low visible volume of junior roles and thin public outcomes data, with only a small review footprint and limited pay transparency.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

10.8

/ 20

The company lists an “Internship: Microfluidics Simulations (CFD)” aimed at MSc students, with a defined 6–9 month full-time term in Amsterdam.
Nostics lists only one other vacancy on the same careers page, and that role is a Project Leader requiring typically 8–10+ years in regulated IVD work.
The company does not currently show recurring junior, associate, or 0–3 year roles outside the internship, so entry-level access looks occasional rather than steady.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.7

/ 20

The company runs applications through a consistent “Apply” flow (Typeform) across roles, which avoids informal, ad-hoc intake.
Nostics publishes unusually practical candidate information on the careers page, including office accessibility notes, commuting guidance, and a clear internship duration.
The company does not publish interview stages, assessment format, or typical timelines, so applicants still have to guess what the selection process looks like.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

13.2

/ 20

The company frames the internship as embedded within an interdisciplinary R&D team and explicitly says the intern works closely with colleagues designing, fabricating, and testing the systems being simulated.
Nostics describes hands-on work products for the intern (building a CFD framework, running comparisons, documenting methods for team reuse), which usually supports learning-by-doing.
The company does not publicly set out onboarding, mentorship structure, or review cadence, so support could vary a lot by manager and project phase.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

9.0

/ 20

The company states “competitive salary and benefits” for the senior Project Leader role, but does not provide a range.
Nostics offers a full-time internship with a fixed duration and a full-time senior vacancy, suggesting standard employment structures rather than unpaid “trial” work.
The company does not publish salary ranges for early-career roles or internship compensation, which limits confidence on pay fairness.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

10.3

/ 20

The company has a very small set of public employee reviews, including one that speaks positively about management and team environment, but the sample is too small to treat as reliable outcomes.
Nostics publicly shows team growth signals (a visible “People” page with many technical roles, and a LinkedIn employee count in the mid-double-digits), but that does not confirm junior retention or promotion.
The company does not publish measurable early-career outcomes such as intern-to-offer rates, promotion examples by level, or typical time-to-growth milestones.