Lead Software Engineer, Backend - Growth & Monetization

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.

We're looking for a product-minded engineer to set the technical direction for how customers discover, adopt and realize value from Nominal.

You'll lead the backend side of our new Growth & Monetization team, working at the intersection of product engineering, infrastructure and business strategy. Our scope spans the entire customer journey, from self-serve signup and onboarding to pricing and billing infrastructure, intelligent notifications, product discovery and customer value realization. We're also exploring how AI can transform these experiences, whether that's personalizing onboarding, proactively guiding customers toward deeper platform adoption, helping customers understand the value they're getting from Nominal or automating business value assessments to support renewals and expansion.

You'll own the systems underneath the customer journey: metering, billing, entitlements, provisioning and the infrastructure that makes self-serve expansion possible.

This is a role for someone who decides what's worth building, not just how to build it. You'll identify growth constraints, set the goals the team executes toward and be the technical authority for this domain across Nominal. You'll be hands-on from day one, designing, building and operating the core systems yourself, and your work will directly shape how customers adopt the platform, understand the value they're getting and expand their relationship with Nominal. You'll own the business outcomes as well as the technical decisions. As the team grows around you, there's a path to leading it, but the first job is building the foundation. You'll work closely with product, design and go-to-market leadership and have direct exposure to the business leaders whose outcomes depend on this work.