Salary Range: 100000 to 180000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)
About Nominal
Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City. We’re focused on building software and data solutions for organizations that test and validate complex systems—think drones, rocket engines, satellites, and nuclear reactors. Supported by leading investors like General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and more, we’re gaining strong traction in the commercial and government aerospace and defense industrial base, including working directly with the Department of Defense.
Our team includes engineers and operators from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and NASA, all working toward a common goal: making it faster and easier for hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology safely and efficiently. Our platform helps engineering teams accelerate test data review and analysis, scaling testing campaigns to save time and cut costs.
🚀 About the role
- Senior Data Visualization engineer with end-to-end frontend integration and implementation ability
- Help define Nominal’s data visualization strategy and API
- Evaluate preexisting work for integration such as Cesium, Regl, Plotly.js, Deck.gl, and Vega
- Generally own the end-user data visualization UX - ensuring that it’s both best-in-class and continually pushing the boundaries of what is possible
🔍 We’re looking for someone with
- Experience with end-to-end frontend integration/implementation ability
- Experience and opinionated knowledge of data visualization serialization APIs, such as Vega or Plotly
- Ability to create new 2D and 3D data visualization libraries from scratch, using lower-level WebGL (Regl) or SVG (D3) libraries
- Experience creating or contributing to open-source data visualization or graphics projects
⚡ Skills that supercharge us
- Experience creating or contributing to open-source projects
- Interesting data visualization or numerical frontend portfolio on Observable, GitHub, or elsewhere
- Demonstrated combination of numerical methods and frontend (JavaScript/Typescript) abilities
- Interest in cutting-edge Web tech - WebGPU, WASM, etc.
✨ Benefits/Perks
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of premiums covered
- Unlimited PTO /sick leave
- Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional development stipend
- Quarterly company retreats
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.