Jobs at Nominal

Own long-term success for a portfolio of technical B2B customers, from implementation through renewal and expansion. Build change-management and adoption strategies, align executives on measurable outcomes, lead business reviews, quantify ROI, manage account health, and identify growth opportunities. Partner with internal engineering and product teams to improve customer outcomes and develop the post-sale engagement playbook. The role requires technical fluency, project management, metrics-driven decision-making, executive communication, and up to 50% travel.

Lead the Hardware Intelligence research agenda, developing AI agents that reason over hardware data, operate engineering tools, connect simulations with physical tests, and coordinate across systems. Build RL environments, verifiers, and post-training methods; deploy models on-device, on-premises, and in air-gapped environments; establish benchmarks; and hire and mentor researchers. The role requires setting technical direction, conducting statistically rigorous experiments, and delivering research that improves shipped products.

Research Engineer improving AI agents for hardware engineering through evaluations, grounded training data, graders, post-training, reinforcement learning, and reproducible research infrastructure. The role investigates agent failures on real hardware tasks, develops benchmarks and verification systems, prototypes agent capabilities, evaluates experiments, and ships successful improvements to customer-facing systems.

Build AI-powered product experiences for hardware engineers. Prototype features rapidly, develop interfaces and APIs, stream agent workflows, make AI actions trustworthy with visible steps and citations, and own product decisions from concept through customer use. Collaborate closely with users, iterate based on feedback, and create polished full-stack applications involving generative interfaces, asynchronous jobs, rich data visualization, and real-time interactions.

Build and lead zero-to-one AI agent products for hardware engineers. Prototype agent interactions, shape products, develop and ship end-to-end applications, establish agent UX patterns, and transform hardware workflows into agent-native experiences. The role requires strong frontend and full-stack engineering, product judgment, user empathy, and technical leadership across product engineering teams.

Design, build, and operate distributed backend systems for ingesting, storing, querying, and processing high-frequency hardware telemetry and multimodal data. Responsibilities include storage and indexing design, scalability, fault tolerance, performance optimization, reliability improvements, and production operations. The role collaborates across product and infrastructure teams, influences architecture, mentors engineers, and owns systems end to end.

Graduate engineers will build software platforms, features, integrations, data pipelines, and applications for high-volume hardware data. They may work directly with customers in the field, own projects from discovery through deployment and support, iterate based on user feedback, and help expand Nominal’s London team. Applicants should be final-year students graduating in summer 2027 with strong engineering skills and practical experience from placements, internships, projects, hackathons, societies, or coursework.

Design and build the platform powering Nominal’s AI agents, MCP, and internal agent applications. Develop agent tools, workflows, integrations, and customer-facing capabilities for hardware engineering use cases. Instrument systems, evaluate performance, debug production issues, and collaborate directly with customer engineering teams. The role requires owning capabilities end to end, shipping iteratively, and applying hands-on experience with LLM features, prompting, retrieval, and tool design.

Embed with hardware engineering customers to build agentic workflows that perform real engineering tasks, including requirements checks, test-plan analysis, issue investigation, and reusable AI skills. Demonstrate measurable customer value, identify patterns for product development, and represent customer needs internally. The role requires strong Python and data skills, customer-facing communication, modern AI coding-agent experience, and travel to customer sites.

Design and build the platform powering Nominal’s AI agents, including orchestration, planning, tool calling, memory, retrieval, model routing, and autonomous background agents. Own the shared MCP tool layer, establish agent architecture and technical direction, improve evaluation and reliability, and mentor engineers. The role requires shipping production LLM or agent systems, strong distributed-systems and backend expertise, and working in-office five days per week.

Build and ship product experiences for hardware engineers, combining strong frontend engineering with product judgment. Prototype ideas, gather user feedback, make product decisions, and create intuitive workflows for planning, monitoring, commanding devices, and automated testing. Use React and TypeScript across complex data models, asynchronous workflows, APIs, and live updates while contributing across the stack. Work closely with design, product, engineering, technicians, and users to deliver reliable, scalable tools.

Build and own Nominal’s shared frontend compute and data layer for high-throughput live and historical hardware data. Develop streaming, caching, WebSocket, web worker, and columnar-data capabilities; optimize browser memory, rendering, and runtime performance; and ensure data correctness. Partner with product, design, and backend teams to shape workflows, expose compute features, and simplify complex technical experiences for users monitoring mission-critical systems.

Lead backend technical strategy and hands-on development for Growth and Monetization systems, including metering, billing, entitlements, pricing, provisioning, payments, onboarding, notifications, and AI-powered customer journeys. Identify growth opportunities, measure business impact, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, finance, go-to-market, and business leadership. The role may grow into team leadership.

Own product security across the software lifecycle, including threat modeling, security design reviews, application security tooling in CI/CD, vulnerability management, penetration testing, secure SDLC standards, and developer enablement. The role drives remediation across engineering teams, defines security requirements, and establishes an early-stage product security program.

Own Nominal’s FedRAMP, SOC 2, CMMC, and Cyber Essentials Plus compliance programs. Lead gap analysis, control uplift planning, remediation sequencing, evidence collection, audit readiness, assessor coordination, and leadership reporting. Drive engineering, IT, and security owners to close compliance tasks, escalate missed commitments, and establish repeatable GRC processes. The role requires hands-on audit experience, control framework knowledge, technical fluency, and strong judgment in a high-ownership environment.

Build runtime infrastructure, service frameworks, shared libraries, and APIs supporting reliable, observable, secure Nominal services. Investigate and improve concurrency, memory usage, latency, and resilience through profiling, metrics, and load testing. Design observability, auditability, and communication standards used by other engineers. Collaborate across product, frontend, platform, and deployment teams while owning systems from design through production operation.

Owns U.S. Government contract actions from solicitation review through award, modification, and closeout. Reviews FAR, DFARS, data rights, export control, and compliance terms; supports proposals; negotiates with contracting officers; maintains contract records and deadlines; and improves contracting processes through templates, legal technology automation, and metrics.

Lead frontend engineering for Nominal’s Growth & Monetization team. Own technical strategy and hands-on development for signup, onboarding, activation, checkout, billing, product discovery, notifications, analytics, and AI-powered customer experiences. Identify growth opportunities, measure business impact, establish frontend architecture and engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market leaders. Mentor engineers and help build the team as it grows.

Owns commercial contracting and proposals, including SaaS, software licensing, services, NDAs, MSAs, partner, and vendor agreements. Negotiates deals, maintains contract playbooks and templates, manages approvals and signatures, tracks post-signature obligations, improves CLM workflows and metrics, and advises cross-functional teams. The role requires experience with defense and aerospace prime contracts, FAR and DFARS flowdowns, institutional RFPs/RFQs, export controls, and commercial technology agreements.

Lead Nominal’s global trade compliance program, including ITAR, EAR, OFAC, classification, licensing, screening, due diligence, access controls, incident response, policies, training, and cross-functional risk advising. The role manages complex export-control matters, supports international partnerships, and builds scalable compliance processes for cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped software deployments.