Frontend Software Engineer, Nominal
Data
$225-275k
Unified software suite to test and operate hardware
Be an early applicant
Unified software suite to test and operate hardware
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$225-275k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide the tools and infrastructure engineers need to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building products for technical users where you’ve been involved in shaping the data model
- Strong experience with TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture, along with an understanding of how frontend systems interact with backend services
- Experience building products involving large datasets, real-time systems, observability platforms, developer tools, infrastructure software, GIS, security products, financial systems, or other technically sophisticated domains
- A track record of navigating ambiguity by defining problems, forming hypotheses, and iterating with users instead of waiting for complete specifications
- 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
- Systems Thinking
- Experience designing products around complex object models, relationships, and workflows rather than simple CRUD interfaces
- Product Thinking
- Ability to understand user goals, simplify complicated workflows, and make thoughtful product decisions under ambiguity
- Frontend Architecture
- Strong experience with React, TypeScript, modern state management, asynchronous data flows, and scalable application architecture
- Backend Collaboration
- Comfort reasoning about APIs, data loading strategies, backend constraints, and making architectural tradeoffs across the full stack
- Performance Engineering
- Experience optimizing rendering, managing large datasets, virtualized interfaces, streaming updates, caching strategies, and browser performance
- Data Visualization
- Experience building rich data exploration tools, visualization systems, or interactive applications involving complex datasets is a plus
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here
What the job involves
- At Nominal, the frontend goes far beyond a visual layer on top of APIs
- It's where engineers make sense of massive streams of telemetry, investigate failures, automate workflows, and operate some of the world's most advanced hardware systems
- We're looking for engineers who love modeling complex systems as much as building intuitive interfaces
- You'll work at the intersection of product, design, and engineering to transform high-volume, real-time data into tools that help engineers make mission-critical decisions
- Success in this role is measured by building products that simplify complexity without sacrificing power
- You'll partner closely with backend engineers, designers, and product teams to define workflows, shape product direction, and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs in an environment where requirements are often ambiguous and the best solutions aren't immediately obvious
- Design products around complex data
- Build interfaces that help engineers explore, understand, and act on large-scale telemetry and operational data. You'll help define the underlying data models and user workflows that power the product
- Own ambiguous product problems
- Partner closely with product, design, and engineering to turn loosely defined ideas into intuitive user experiences. You'll challenge assumptions, validate workflows directly with users, and make confident product decisions when requirements are incomplete
- Build systems, not just screens
- Develop scalable frontend architecture using React, TypeScript, and modern web technologies. You'll work across application state, data fetching, rendering, and performance to support complex workflows and large datasets
- Make complexity feel simple
- Design experiences that expose powerful capabilities without overwhelming users. You'll think deeply about information architecture, interaction design, and how technical users reason about their work
- Optimize for performance
- Build responsive interfaces capable of handling real-time updates, high-frequency data streams, and large datasets while maintaining exceptional usability and performance. Success in this role comes from combining strong frontend engineering with product judgment. You'll spend as much time thinking about how users reason about complex systems as you will writing React code
Our take
Whilst leading workflow platforms such as Monday and Basecamp are designed for general use, teams in more specific industries may benefit from experiences designed for their sector. Nominal has built a data analysis platform and workflow system tailored to the needs of engineering teams managing complex machines in industries such as aerospace and defense.
Nominal’s platform caters to engineering teams who develop, validate and monitor hardware, enabling them to build observability and control over mission-critical machines. It automates routine tasks and streamlines collaboration between team members, ensuring that all stages of a machine’s development have rigorous oversight.
Having only come out of stealth in 2024, Nominal’s path to market has been accelerated by several rounds of funding. This is being used to expand operations and business reach as it attempts to cut into a competitive market. With its target audience pitch well articulated, the company has become the fastest-growing software platform in hardware development with 6X customer growth across aerospace, defense, energy, robotics and manufacturing.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2026
$80m
SERIES B
Jun 2025
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $182.5m
Company benefits
- 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and family)
- $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 12-weeks parental leave
- In-office 5 days per week
- 401K
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- Unlimited paid vacation
- Wellness Stipend ($100/mo)
- Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- Learning & development stipend
- Gourmet lunch provided daily
Company HQ
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Jason Hoch
(Co-Founder)Previously a Software Engineer/Engineering Lead at Vercel, Newfront Insurance and Palantir Technologies.
Cameron McCord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Investor at Lux Capital. Was also Head of Defense at Saildrone, Advisor at Applied Intuition, and worked in Product and Growth at Anduril Industries.
Bryce Strauss
(Co-Founder)Previously an MBS and MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School, as well as Summer Associate at The Engine and a member of the Executive Leadership Development Programme at Lockheed Martin.
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