Product Designer

About Nominal Nominal is building the software infrastructure that powers the world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex software systems in real time, and helps engineering teams iterate faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on solving challenges at the intersection of hardware and software. As a dual-use platform, we're serving top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Shield AI, and Anduril. We're backed by top-tier investors (Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures) who share our mission to accelerate innovation in mission-critical systems. Our team brings experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common goal: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision. 🚀 About the role The world's most consequential hardware (spacecraft, autonomous vehicles, defense systems, next-generation energy infrastructure) still runs on software that looks and feels a generation behind. At Nominal, we think the interfaces engineers use to command, monitor, and understand these systems should be as sophisticated as the hardware itself. As a Product Designer , you'll define what that looks like. You'll work at the intersection of design and engineering, embedded with the team building the product. Your focus: rethinking HMI (human-machine interface) design for complex, high-rate systems. That means turning dense operational workflows into experiences that are immediate, legible, and trustworthy under pressure. You'll be establishing the visual language and interaction principles for a category that doesn't have a modern standard yet. The patterns you set here will shape how an entire industry builds and operates critical systems for years to come. 🤔 What You'll Do: Lead the design lifecycle for mission-critical features and end-to-end workflows, from initial concept through to implementation. Design novel interactions that extend the capabilities of human-to-machine interfaces. Build and evolve a design system that solves immediate product needs while establishing durable foundations, codifying the visual language, component behaviors, and interaction conventions that the rest of the platform is built from. Define the visual and interaction principles that govern how Nominal's interfaces communicate system state, ensuring that critical information like alarms, faults, and operational status is immediately legible and unambiguous across contexts. Develop guidelines and patterns for information-dense environments where users are making time-sensitive decisions, accounting for real-world constraints like sustained attention, environmental variability, and diverse display conditions. Understand and bring clarity to technical topics using concrete design outputs: diagrams, data visualizations, layout, typography, interactions, and the like. Collaborate closely with our customers to synthesize feedback and drive high-quality, impactful design solutions. Contribute strategically to the product and design direction, making pivotal decisions that influence the future of Nominal's platform. Use storytelling and design thinking to bring stakeholders together, aligning them with your vision and process. Maintain a relentless focus on craft, constantly seeking to elevate the user experience by incorporating novel design solutions. 🔍 We're looking for someone with A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a designer for software development, with a strong emphasis on visual and interaction design. Expertise in Figma, with a strong foundation in prototyping, testing, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)