Product Security Engineer

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.

Our customers trust us with the data and controls behind their hardware programs, so the security of our platform is part of the product itself. It has to be designed in from the first architecture review and held up through every release, not checked at the end. Product Security is the function that makes that the default for how we build.

We’re looking for a Product Security Engineer to do that work. You’ll review designs for new services and features, build the SAST, SCA, secrets-scanning, and DAST gates that run in our pipelines, and own fixing what they find, from CVE remediation to penetration test follow-up. Your influence will come from being useful to the engineers shipping code. Because this is a standalone function, it’s up to you to set the standard for what good looks like.

This is a high-ownership role for a software engineer who has moved into security and knows that secure products are designed in, not bolted on at the end.