Lead Sales Engineer

About Nominal 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. As a Sales Engineer , you'll deliver Nominal’s vision of providing continuous testing to the industrial base, equipping engineers to deploy capability at scale, in the shortest time possible. You’ll be working across accounts ranging from large enterprises to innovative startups, selling a modern software platform to hardware organizations. It’ll be your role to demonstrate and communicate how our technology fits into their existing stack and helps them meet their critical testing outcomes. You will also be counted on to shape the early sales team and its culture. 🚀 About the role Solution scoping & collaboration — Collaborate deeply with Sales, Mission, Product, and Engineering teams to understand customer requirements, scope feasible solutions, and align on technical feasibility. Customer discovery & advocacy — Gain holistic insight into customer pain points and feedback to understand and quantify ways Nominal can benefit, while also helping to refine Nominal’s roadmap and messaging. Technical pre-sales excellence — Deliver persuasive, tailored demos, PoCs, and technical presentations, effectively communicating Nominal’s platform value to C-level executives, systems architects, engineering leads, testing managers, and IT stakeholders. Customize & prototype — Design custom demo workflows, extensions, or integrations (e.g., data ingestion pipelines, automation scripts) that showcase how Nominal delivers real-world impact across ambiguous or edge-case scenarios. Strategic opportunities — Partner with Account Executives to build account plans, identify internal champions, and navigate complex buying processes—including IT, compliance, and financial stakeholders. Team enablement & knowledge sharing — Co-create battle cards, talk tracks, and technical collateral. Mentor junior team members and support the evolution of Nominal’s pre-sales methodology. 🔍 We're looking for someone with Proven experience: 5–10 years in technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or sales engineering roles at high-growth enterprise software companies, ideally with exposure to aerospace, defense, or industrial customers. You’ve consistently partnered with Account Executives to close complex, multi-stakeholder deals, and can point to examples where your technical guidance directly enabled customer adoption. Technical fluency — You’re deeply conversant in cloud infra and analytics tooling (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Influx, Grafana) and can speak confidently with engineers in hardware or systems domains. Coding & data proficiency – You have expertise in coding with SQL, Python, and Pandas, as well as familiarity with Spark, Arrow, Kafka, Beam, and Flink. Solution-selling mastery — You’ve successfully supported sales of technical p ... (truncated, view full listing at source)