Nominal powers mission-critical engineering with advanced data infrastructure, real-time observability, and analysis tools — all in one collaborative platform. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
Own the layer between Nominal's compute engine and the user: streaming over WebSockets, orchestrating web workers, handling columnar data formats, caching intelligently, and processing live and historical data on the client. You'll design generalized data and compute capabilities that serve today's product and the use cases we haven't met yet, so that new panels, new query types, and open-ended user-defined visualizations can be built quickly on the stability and guarantees already in place. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years experience building products for technical users where you’ve been involved in the infrastructure behind demanding, data-heavy applications
- Strong experience with TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture, along with an understanding of how frontend systems interact with backend services
- Experience building high-throughput data applications in the browser, with hands-on use of web workers, WebSockets, columnar formats such as Apache Arrow, and canvas or WebGL/WebGPU rendering
- Strong product instincts. You naturally ask "Why are we building this?" before "How should I implement it?" and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions when you believe there's a better solution for users
- A systems mindset. You enjoy reasoning about data models, user workflows, and how complex systems should behave before jumping into implementation
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical and product tradeoffs clearly across engineering, design, and product teams
More about this role
Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.
Nominal is building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Hardware engineering teams use Nominal to simulate, test, manufacture, and operate the physical systems that keep the world moving, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation energy systems and robotics.
Our customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, Wisk Aero, Pratt Miller Motorsports, Antares, and Shinkei Systems, amongst others, alongside programs within the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Tesla, 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 a...
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