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Nominal

Data Visualization Engineer

Nominal, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079


About Nominal

Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City that specializes in software and data management products for organizations that are testing and validating complex physical systems (like drones, planes, rockets, engines, satellites, nuclear reactors, etc.). We are backed by prolific and experienced venture capital firms like General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, XYZ, Haystack, Human Capital, BoxGroup, etc., and have raised significant venture funding with strong early traction in both commercial and defense applications.

The Nominal team comes from commercial companies like SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and NASA and is active amongst customers in aerospace, defense, industrial, and advanced energy applications (autonomous aviation, eVTOL/VTOL, flight testing, satellite development, etc.). We are also building and delivering solutions to the United States Air Force (USAF) who are looking to expand use cases across the broader DoD test community.

Our product is a data visualization and computation platform designed to

accelerate how engineering teams test and validate

hardware systems. We specifically aim to shorten the data review process after running tests and help engineering organizations scale testing campaigns more efficiently and effectively to save time and lower costs. It works by combining heterogeneous data into

runs

and allowing users to easily build custom visualization and analysis. Users write test logic with interactive computation, and these

checks

can be applied to historical and future runs to compound learnings. Data sources can include telemetry, sensor data, logs, simulations, and other testing metadata like environment, vehicle, part, version, etc.

About the roleSenior Data Visualization engineer with end-to-end frontend integration and implementation abilityHelp define Nominal's data visualization strategy and APIEvaluate preexisting work for integration such as Cesium, Regl, Plotly.js, Deck.gl, and VegaGenerally own the end-user data visualization UX - ensuring that it's both best-in-class and continually pushing the boundaries of what is possibleWe're looking for someone with

Experience with end-to-end frontend integration/implementation abilityExperience and opinionated knowledge of data visualization serialization APIs, such as Vega or PlotlyAbility to create new 2D and 3D data visualization libraries from scratch, using lower-level WebGL (Regl) or SVG (D3) librariesExperience creating or contributing to open-source data viz or graphics projectsSkills that supercharge us

Experience creating or contributing to open-source projectsInteresting data visualization or numerical frontend portfolio on Observable, GitHub, or elsewhereDemonstrated combination of numerical methods and frontend (JavaScript/Typescript) abilitiesInterest in cutting-edge Web tech - WebGPU, WASM, etc.Benefits/Perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of premiums coveredUnlimited PTO /sick leaveFree lunch, snacks, and coffeeProfessional development stipendQuarterly company retreats

$100,000 - $180,000 a year

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offers may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in all offers and are considered part of Nominal's total compensation package.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway!