Product Engineer, Engineering Apps — Frontend Focus

Nominal; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 179,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Free lunch and snacks

Professional development stipend

In-office hardware lab

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Nominal is seeking a Product Engineer, Engineering Applications to bridge product, design, and engineering. You’ll craft frontend experiences at the intersection of hardware and software, shaping how engineers interact with complex systems.

Expect ownership from idea to customer deployment, with strong emphasis on frontend craft and cross-stack collaboration. You’ll work across scheduling, live data, and hardware-control interfaces, turning complex processes into intuitive workflows and scalable

Qualifications

• 2+ years building and shipping software products.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend architecture.
• Ability to prototype and iterate—from ambiguity to tangible user tests.
• Good product sense and taste; attention to interaction details.
• Systems mindset: reason about data models, state, and async workflows.
• Clear communication and empathy for users, across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Prototype, learn, and ship. Turn ideas into working prototypes and show them to users.
• Own product decisions in your area by partnering with design, product, and engineering to decide what to build.
• Make complex workflows feel simple by creating intuitive experiences for the hardware development lifecycle.
• Make hardware behavior understandable and actionable with tools for authoring diagrams and monitoring devices.
• Build systems, not just screens, using React, TypeScript, and modern web tech across data models and live updates.
• Watch real users and sweat the details; gather feedback and iterate to balance usability with precision.

Skills

Frontend craft

TypeScript

React

Frontend architecture

Prototyping

Product sense

Systems mindset

Empathy

AI tooling

Job description

Nominal is seeking a Product Engineer, Engineering Applications to bridge product, design, and engineering. You’ll craft frontend experiences at the intersection of hardware and software, shaping how engineers interact with complex systems.

Expect ownership from idea to customer deployment, with strong emphasis on frontend craft and cross-stack collaboration. You’ll work across scheduling, live data, and hardware-control interfaces, turning complex processes into intuitive workflows and scalable