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# Product Manager, Data Review at Nominal

- **Company:** Nominal
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $153k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDqEiA93k4zgWmg2hXWADyyV

## Job description

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 Product Manager responsible for a product area designed to accelerate hardware engineers as they review data from test events. Your tool belt might include anything from root cause analysis frameworks, to predictive analytics and anomaly detection, to trade study analysis and dimensionality reduction and more. The users you support span multiple engineering disciplines and org maturity levels. All of this existing in the context of constantly evolving tech capability both in things like AI and traditional software. You’ll provide clarity, transforming complex technical details into a unified product that delights and empowers the users mission.

You will contribute to what it means to do hardware data review in the age of AI, with a focus on what it means to create a differentiated product moat that won’t be commoditized by prompting or AI coding. This will involve diving deep into advanced analytics, capabilities that only come from scale, intelligently integrating AI agents themselves or facilitating org-wide or inter-org network effects.

Your team in this role consists of software engineers and designers, along with internal stakeholders from growth. You will coordinate goal-setting, requirements gathering, vision setting, project breakdown and validation. You are skilled at soliciting and responding to feedback on both the feature goals and details alike. You use the tool that’s right for the job, whether that’s a doc, a design, or a prototype.

🚀 About the role

- Ideate and synthesize evidence: Work with customers and internal stakeholders to gather product ideas and evidence for investment. Apply rigor to the question of what to build, considering existing customer pain, potential markets, engineering effort, opportunity cost, and design cohesion.
- Collaborate with engineering and design: Partner with engineering and design to turn ambiguous problems into clear requirements and milestones. Recommend pragmatic scope/quality tradeoffs, unblock execution, and close the loop post-launch with feedback and followups.
- Be fluent in the details: You'll work closely with your engineering and design pod, and coordinate directly with the customer-facing engineers who use your product area day to day. Your job is to learn and understand the complexities so you can provide a direction that really works.
- Communicate with clarity and purpose: Identify the most important thing and hone it relentlessly. Produce documents and decks, prototypes that align stakeholders and point toward proven value. You are a storyteller.
- Build product systems: Nominal serves a diverse market of hardware orgs. Your responsibility is to create a product that generalizes across them, empowering the mission of one customer while contributing to systems to serve 100s more.
- Ship solutions: Above all, your job is to ship product that accelerates hardware testing. You are a force for forward progress.

🔍 We're looking for someone with

- Proven Product Ownership: 3–5 years of product management experience, including at least one 0→1 launch and a track record of shipping meaningful increments, ideally on an early-stage product built for technical users.
- Passion for the Problem: Genuine excitement about how software is transforming the way complex hardware systems get tested and validated.
- Clarity from Ambiguity: You can take a loosely defined problem space, like "how engineers root-cause an anomaly," and turn it into a concrete plan.
- Deeply Collaborative: Strong cross-functional partnership with engineering and design, with a knack for aligning stakeholders, including without direct authority.
- Strong Technical Intuition: You can discuss system design, data modeling, and APIs at a working level.
- AI-Native Thinking: You're excited about AI agents as a product paradigm, with a clear point of view on where agents create durable advantage versus commoditized features.
- Clear, Concise Communicator: You synthesize complex topics for operators, engineers, and executives alike, in writing and in conversation.
- High Standards, High Ownership: A demonstrated bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating quickly, even under real constraints.

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

- Experience in hardware engineering or adjacent technical field.
- Experience working in a DoW context with a security clearance.
- Experience in product design and an ability to produce prototypes to communicate ideas.
- Experience in software development either in a backend, frontend or edge context.
- Experience with hardware data review frameworks like FMEA, Bayesian RCA or Fishbone.
- Experience with data analytics or data science especially if applied to hardware data.
- Experience with data visualization time series analysis, or telemetry systems.

Great candidates rarely check every box. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.

✨ 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](https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987).

## About Nominal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nominal provides a unified industrial data stack that enables hardware engineering teams to test, analyze, and operate mission-critical systems with the speed of software development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Cameron McCord (Co-founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Aerospace & Defense, Hardware Testing, Industrial Data Infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – Engineering teams at startups, enterprises, and government agencies building complex hardware (e.g., autonomous vehicles, space systems, hypersonics)
- Mission: "Equip engineers to test and operate critical technology" – delivering the tools and infrastructure to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.

## Products & Services
- **[Nominal Core](https://nominal.io)**: A cloud-based collaborative workspace that ingests, structures, and analyzes telemetry, logs, video, and simulation results. Provides real-time mission control, trend analysis, and automated reporting to accelerate development, production, and operations. (SaaS)
- **[Nominal Connect](https://nominal.io)**: An edge compute platform for hardware test. Deploys Python-based test apps on-premises, turns scripts into operator-ready interfaces, and runs tests deterministically at the edge (lab, remote range, air-gapped). Automatically syncs results to Core for deeper analysis. (On-premise/Edge software)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$182.5M** across 5 rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, and a non-equity assistance)
- **Notable Investors**: Founders Fund (led Series B), General Catalyst (led Series A), Lux Capital (led Seed), and Sequoia Capital (partnered 2025)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+202.5% YoY** to 196 employees (as of 2026)
  - 17,984 LinkedIn followers (+209.7% yearly)
  - Customer Anduril reduced test review time from 5+ hours to near real-time across 300+ engineers
  - Active job postings: 67 (up +346.7% yearly)
  - Offices in Los Angeles (HQ), New York, Austin, Pflugerville (TX)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that replaces fragmented test tools – one data model for telemetry, logs, video, simulations, and documents
- **Built by engineers from Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin** – deep domain expertise in mission-critical hardware
- **Edge-to-cloud architecture** that works in air-gapped, offline, and secure environments
- **Enterprise-grade security and scale** with support for startups, large enterprises, and government deployments
- **Open API, SDKs, and integration ecosystem** allowing teams to modernize legacy systems without disruption

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling the platform to serve larger defense and aerospace programs (e.g., integrated programs, fleet management)
- Expand into manufacturing test lines and production environments (scaling test code from prototype to manufacturing)
- Deepen government partnerships and secure FedRAMP or similar certifications
- Grow headcount aggressively, especially in engineering, mission operations, and sales roles

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Engineers building for Engineers" – a tight-knit team of operators and builders from Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, and more. High ownership, real impact on hardware that flies, launches, or defends.
- **Work Policy**: In-office **5 days per week** (LA, NY, Austin, Pflugerville). Gourmet lunch provided daily.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and family)
  - Unlimited paid vacation
  - 12-weeks parental leave
  - Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
  - $500/year hardware sensor stipend
  - Wellness stipend ($100/month)
  - 401K with employer match
  - Learning & development stipend
  - Employee-friendly equity terms
- **Growth Trajectory**: Over 200% yearly headcount growth, recent Series B funding, and a clear mission to accelerate the "hardware renaissance" – strong signal for career growth and impact.

## Sources
1. [Nominal Careers Page](https://nominal.io/careers)
2. [Nominal About Us](https://nominal.io/about-us)
3. [Nominal Product Page](https://nominal.io/?j=35813&sfmc_sub=16110646&l=1582_HTML&u=1011363&mid=546014653&jb=234&sfmc_id=16110646)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/nominal-inc)
5. [Sequoia Capital Portfolio](https://sequoiacap.com/companies/nominal/)

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