Frontend Software Engineer, Auth

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About Nominal

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders like Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus and REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports, alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs where failure isn't an option. We're backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence.

Join Nominal as a Frontend Software Engineer, Auth

At Nominal, the frontend goes far beyond a visual layer on top of APIs. For the Auth team, it's where administrators decide who can see and change sensitive test data, and where every user learns what they're allowed to do and why. Our customers run programs where the wrong person seeing the wrong data is a serious problem, so access control has to be precise, and the interface has to make that precision clear.

We're looking for engineers who love reasoning about permission models as much as building intuitive interfaces. You'll work at the intersection of product, design, and engineering to turn a relationship-based authorization system into tools that let admins control access with confidence and let users understand exactly why they can or can't see something. Success in this role is measured by building products that make a precise, deny-by-default permission model legible without hiding its 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. You'll own the auth frontend largely end to end, so your judgment will shape how access control feels across the whole product.

🚀 About the role

Design products around access control
Build the interfaces administrators use to assign roles, manage users and groups, create workspaces, issue and revoke API keys, and control which data sources each person can see. You'll help define the workflows and interaction patterns that make a relationship-based permission model understandable and hard to misconfigure.

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hip-based access control, and familiarity with SpiceDB or other Zanzibar-style authorization engines.

Identity & Authentication
Comfort with sign-in flows, session management, and enterprise identity standards such as OIDC and SAML.

Security-Minded Design
Experience making permission models understandable to end users, or designing interfaces where correctness has real consequences.

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.

✨ 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 .

Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $175,000 – $275,000 per year.