AI Platform Engineer — Hardware Intelligence

Nominal; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health/dental/vision

Unlimited PTO

Free lunch and snacks

Professional development stipend

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Nominal is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Hardware Intelligence team. You will build infrastructure, data systems, and AI capabilities powering the next generation of intelligent engineering tools.

You will turn ambiguity into working software by prototyping ideas and collaborating with customers and product leaders. Success comes from making technical bets, rapidly prototyping, and delivering robust production systems in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building AI or machine learning products that shipped to production.
• Experience working with large datasets, time series data, observability platforms, data infrastructure, or machine learning systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to design scalable backend or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build the systems that power Hardware Intelligence, including agent infrastructure, evaluation pipelines, retrieval systems, and tooling for reasoning over engineering data.
• Design and ship AI-powered workflows that help engineers investigate anomalies, perform root cause analysis, and understand complex hardware behavior.
• Work across large-scale time series, telemetry, logs, and other engineering datasets to build robust, production-ready systems.
• Prototype new approaches quickly, evaluate them with customers, and iterate based on real-world feedback.
• Partner closely with engineers and product leaders to determine where the team should invest next.
• Help establish engineering patterns, infrastructure, and best practices as Hardware Intelligence scales.
• Engage directly with customers to understand how complex engineering problems are solved today and translate those workflows into product capabilities.

Skills

AI/ML product development

Large datasets / time series data

Distributed backend systems

Software engineering fundamentals

Tools

Time series databases

Observability tooling

Data platforms

Job description

Nominal is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Hardware Intelligence team. You will build infrastructure, data systems, and AI capabilities powering the next generation of intelligent engineering tools.

You will turn ambiguity into working software by prototyping ideas and collaborating with customers and product leaders. Success comes from making technical bets, rapidly prototyping, and delivering robust production systems in a fast-moving environment.