Jobs at Nominal

Develop early commercial pipeline through outreach, market research, and channel experiments. Test messaging and outbound strategies, segment markets, support go-to-market operations, research prospects, and assist with sales collateral and processes. Conduct discovery and qualification conversations with technical and executive audiences, identify customer needs, and help shape opportunities. The role offers a path toward account executive responsibilities and quota ownership.

Design defined product features and improvements for a connected hardware testing platform. Translate complex data workflows into intuitive experiences, conduct user research, create flows and prototypes, collaborate with engineering and product through implementation, and contribute to reusable design-system components. The role also involves incorporating customer feedback, explaining design decisions, and supporting products used to test advanced hardware systems.

Summer 2027 Product Design Intern working with designers, engineers, and product partners on a scoped project for hardware engineering customers. Responsibilities include user research, workflow analysis, AI-assisted prototyping, detailed product design, design critiques, and contributing to design system components and documentation. Candidates should demonstrate visual design fundamentals, thoughtful problem-solving, prototyping ability, curiosity about technical problems, and openness to feedback.

Own U.S. Government business development across defense agencies, managing pipeline creation, customer engagement, opportunity shaping, negotiations, and deal execution. Build relationships with military and civilian stakeholders, acquisition officials, technical leaders, industry partners, and mission organizations. Translate mission needs into platform opportunities, inform growth strategy, develop partnerships, represent the company at industry events, and expand early engagements into lasting programs. The role requires defense-sector expertise, an active U.S. security clearance, and travel up to 50%.

Embeds with hardware engineering teams to build agentic workflows and AI skills that perform engineering tasks, including requirements checks, test-plan analysis, and issue investigation. Demonstrates value to customers, identifies reusable patterns, and translates customer needs into product capabilities. Requires strong Python and data skills, customer-facing communication, modern AI coding-agent experience, and willingness to travel. Hardware, test, controls, forward-deployed, solutions engineering, and security-clearance experience are advantageous.

Design and build the platform powering Nominal’s AI agents, MCP, workflows, integrations, and customer-facing tools. Develop LLM features involving prompting, tool design, retrieval, observability, and evaluation. Collaborate directly with hardware engineers and customer programs, convert field insights into scalable capabilities, and own agent functionality from concept through production. The role also involves shaping technical direction and improving how agents support hardware testing and operations.

Lead development of AI agent products and AI-native applications for hardware engineering workflows. Prototype ideas rapidly, build products end to end, improve agent user experiences, establish interaction patterns, and lead technical direction across product engineering. Partner with design, product, and platform teams while working closely with engineers and users.

Design and build the platform powering Nominal’s AI agents, including orchestration, planning, tool calling, memory, background execution, retrieval, context assembly, model routing, and fallbacks. Set technical direction, establish architecture, collaborate on evaluations and platform growth, mentor engineers, and deliver reliable LLM and agent systems to production.

Build and rapidly prototype AI-native product features for hardware engineers. Develop full-stack interfaces, APIs, streaming agent workflows, citations, editable outputs, and trustworthy human-agent handoffs. Own product decisions from concept through customer delivery, observe real users, and iterate on usability. The role requires strong front-end development with TypeScript and React, experience with AI-powered interfaces, rapid prototyping, product ownership, and modern AI coding-agent workflows.

Support hardware-software integration for test stands, instrumentation systems, and live control environments. Develop Python or Rust software using instrumentation protocols and vendor SDKs, automate data collection and control, contribute drivers to an open-source instrumentation library, troubleshoot integrations on-site, and complete a scoped hardware integration project.

Mission Dev interns build forward-deployed software for complex hardware systems. Responsibilities include understanding customer testing workflows, developing integrations, data pipelines, and applications for high-volume hardware data, owning projects from discovery through deployment and support, iterating based on user feedback, and sharing customer insights with product and engineering teams.

Build forward-deployed software for engineers testing complex hardware systems. Responsibilities include understanding customer workflows, developing integrations, data pipelines, and applications for high-volume hardware data, owning solutions through deployment and support, iterating based on user feedback, and contributing reusable capabilities to the core product.

Own full-cycle recruiting strategy and execution for GTM roles, including account executives, SDRs, solutions engineers, and leadership. Partner with GTM leaders to define talent profiles, build sourcing strategies, create structured assessment processes, and close exceptional candidates. Develop scalable recruiting infrastructure, improve hiring processes, and provide market-informed guidance in a high-growth SaaS environment.

Own full-cycle recruiting for complex technical roles across engineering, product, infrastructure, and AI. Develop sourcing strategies, market maps, candidate profiles, and structured assessments; partner with technical leaders; manage candidate relationships through closing; and improve recruiting processes, interview calibration, candidate experience, and talent intelligence as the company scales.

Software engineering interns will build features for high-frequency, high-volume hardware data infrastructure, collaborate directly with customers, own projects from start to finish, and support product growth at an early-stage company. The role involves working with engineers and domain experts on testing and validating complex systems, including spacecraft, autonomous vehicles, reactors, rockets, and aircraft.

Entry-level software engineers will build data infrastructure and product features for high-frequency, high-volume multimodal hardware data. They will collaborate closely with customers, work directly with users in the field, own projects from start to finish, support customer onboarding, and help expand the company’s platform for testing and validating complex hardware systems.

Manage daily DC office operations, including supplies, facilities, vendors, security coordination, A/V support, visitor access, and shared-space readiness. Plan office events and onboarding logistics, provide hospitality-focused employee support, maintain operational documentation, and build scalable systems for requests, maintenance, and inventory. Coordinate repairs, office improvements, catering, signage, and workspace setup while proactively resolving issues and communicating updates to stakeholders.

The Deployment Systems Engineer will deploy and monitor infrastructure for advanced hardware systems, manage projects, and innovate in air-gapped environments.

Build, optimize, and maintain large-scale build systems (Bazel), CI/CD pipelines, and release automation. Own developer infrastructure, observability, telemetry, logging, and metrics. Partner with product teams to remove developer friction and improve engineering productivity as the monorepo and organization scale.

Own complex technical customer issues from investigation through resolution by debugging logs, APIs, databases, code, and production systems. Partner with customers, product, and engineering to identify root causes, distinguish bugs from product gaps, and drive lasting improvements. Create documentation, troubleshooting guides, internal tools, and scalable support workflows. Strong Python and SQL skills are required, while hardware, testing, measurement, and technical data experience are valued.