Product Engineer, AI
Product Engineer, AI Nominal
Locations: New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; London; Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA Team: AI Work arrangement: In office Employment type: Full-time
About Nominal
Our mission is to accelerate how the world engineers new hardware. Nominal's connected test and operations platform powers the world's most advanced hardware programs and its most ambitious startups, from spacecraft, racecars, and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense and energy programs. Our customers include Anduril, Shield AI, Hermeus, Albedo, Shinkei, and Pratt Miller Motorsports, as well as U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force programs. Now we're expanding across the entire hardware lifecycle, building the foundation, AI-native applications, and agents that accelerate innovators' work and change what's possible to build.
We're backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed, and our team comes from SpaceX, Apple, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies.
About Hardware Intelligence
We're the team behind Nominal's agents, AI-native applications, and MCP, and its forward-leaning AI bets. Our mission is to unlock the bottlenecks of the hardware lifecycle with AI. Our agents reason over physical reality, from high-rate telemetry and test campaigns to designs and simulations, where real test results are the ground truth their work is checked against. We believe opinionated AI, built for the real work of hardware programs, will change how the world engineers.
We're collaborative, iterative, and high-agency, and we're human-centered and customer-focused. We build with the newest AI tools every day, and because those tools keep changing, so do we: we stay curious and keep looking for the better way. Our team spans data science and ML, distributed systems, search, and knowledge systems, and we obsess over how agents can be genuinely useful to the engineers who rely on them.
The Role
As an AI Product Engineer, you'll bring new ideas to life: prototype fast, put them in front of real engineers, and turn the ones that work into polished products where engineers and agents work together.
What You'll Do
Prototype new features and interactions quickly, often with AI coding agents, to test ideas with real users before committing.
Build where engineers and agents work together, end to end: the interface, the APIs behind it, and how agent work streams in and stays editable.
Make agent work trustworthy on screen: visible steps, citations, and clean handoffs back to the engineer.
Own product decisions in your area, from what to build to when it's ready.
Watch real users, sweat the details, and keep iterating on what you learn.
What you'll bring
4+ years shipping full-stack product, with strong front-end skills (TypeScript and React or similar).
A habit of prototyping: you'd rather show a working idea than describe one.
Experience building, or strong interest in building, AI-powered interfaces: streaming responses, async jobs, generative UI.
Obsession with the user experience: you care about the details users feel and what makes a product great.
Ownership of what you ship, from first idea to customers using it.
You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we.
Nice to have
You've shipped something people loved enough to tell others about, at a startup or on your own.
You've built rich data visualization or real-time interfaces.
You've built prototypes or side projects with AI coding agents that real people use.
Benefits/Perks
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Unlimited PTO and sick leave.
Free lunch, snacks, and coffee.
Professional Development Stipend.
Annual company retreat.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
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.
Application
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Required application fields: First name; Last name; Email; LinkedIn URL; Phone number; Location; Resume. A cover letter may also be uploaded.
This position requires access to information and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Your responses to the questions below will be used solely to determine your eligibility under U.S. law to receive information and materials subject to U.S. export controls. Are you any of the following “protected individual(s)” as defined in the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)?
A person lawfully admitted for permanent residence of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder)
A person admitted as a refugee to the United States under 8 U.S.C. 1157
A person admitted as an asylee to the United States under 8 U.S.C. 1158
A United States citizen or national
None of the above
U.S. Work Authorization — Are you authorized to work in the United States? Yes / No.
Will you require sponsorship from Nominal for employment now or in the future? (e.g, OPT, H1B visa)? Yes / No.
Clearance Eligibility — Do you presently hold an active U.S. security clearance, or are you eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance? Yes, I hold an active U.S. security clearance; Yes, I'm eligible for a U.S security clearance; No.
If you have held a U.S. security clearance in the past, what clearance level have you held? Confidential; Secret; Top Secret; N/A - have never held a U.S. security clearance.
Are you open to working 5 days onsite in one of our offices listed on the job? Yes / No.
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Optional fields: Gender; Race; Veteran status.
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