Data Visualization Engineer

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.

• Sr data viz 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 viz UX - ensuring that it's both best-in-class and continually pushing the boundaries of what is possible

• 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 viz libraries from scratch, using lower-level WebGL (Regl) or SVG (D3) libraries
• Experience creating or contributing to open-source data viz or graphics projects

• Experience creating or contributing to open-source projects
• Interesting data viz 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.

• 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

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!