Frontend Software Engineer, Data

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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, Data

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.

🚀 About the role

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
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s 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.

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

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.

✨ 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 $225,000 – $275,000 per year.