Product Operations

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 fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

Some of the world’s leading technology investors, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and Insight Partners, are backing Nominal’s ambition to change how machines are built and operated. We’re looking for engineers who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation of world-changing hardware possible.

Nominal's Product organization needs a clear, measurable cadence for planning, outcome reviews, customer insights, launches, and cross-functional decisions. Product Operations builds, runs, and improves that operating system across Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) and the teams it works with, including Mission and GTM. The work makes every PM more effective by making customer evidence, priorities, outcomes, and decisions easier to act on.

This role is ideal for an operator who has built and run operating rhythms across several teams with little oversight, and who decides which process problems to fix first. It is a hands-on individual contributor role and does not manage people initially. Over time, the scope can grow to include running analytics for the Product organization and shaping how EPD operates as a whole.