8+ years of experience building products end to end, with strong front-end and full-stack skills.
Proven track record of taking products from concept to launch, particularly in AI or agent experiences.
Strong product sense and ability to discern essential features from non-essential ones.
Deep empathy for users, with a commitment to learning from their feedback.
Experience in setting product engineering direction and elevating team performance.
Familiarity with modern AI coding agents and a willingness to adapt to new tools.
Responsibilities
Prototype new agent products and interactions quickly, presenting ideas to engineers before formal specifications.
Transform the best concepts into fully developed products, overseeing the entire process from start to finish.
Focus on enhancing user experience by observing engineers and identifying areas for improvement.
Establish consistent UX patterns for agent products across the organization, ensuring clarity and usability.
Convert traditional hardware workflows into innovative, agent-native products rather than just adapting old systems.
Lead technical efforts among product engineers while collaborating closely with design, product, and platform teams.
Benefits
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Unlimited PTO and sick leave.
Free lunch, snacks, and coffee.
Professional Development Stipend.
Annual company retreat.
Full Job Description
The Role:
As a Staff Product Engineer, you'll take agent products from zero to one, turning new ideas into prototypes and prototypes into products engineers love, and lead the team that builds them, from the agents engineers use every day to the AI-native apps that come next.
What You'll Do:
Prototype new agent products and interactions in days, putting working ideas in front of engineers before anything is spec'd.
Take the best ideas from zero to one: shape the product, build it end to end, and ship it.
Obsess over the user experience: watch engineers work, find where agents help and where they get in the way, and fix it.
Set the patterns for agent UX across Nominal: streaming work as it happens, showing every step, citing sources, and letting engineers edit and take over.
Turn hardware workflows (reviews, qualification, reporting) into agent-native products, not chat bolted onto old screens.
Lead technically across product engineers, and partner closely with design, product, and the agent platform team.
What you'll bring:
8+ years building products end to end, with a strong front-end and full-stack core.
A track record of taking products from zero to one, including AI or agent experiences users chose to use daily.
Product sense and taste: you know what makes a great product great, what to build, what to leave out, and why.
Deep empathy for users, and the habit of learning from them directly.
A track record of setting product engineering direction across a team and raising the bar for the engineers around you.
You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we.
Nice to have:
You've designed agent interaction patterns others adopted: streaming work, reviewable steps, human takeover.
You've built tools for technical users who live in data: notebooks, IDEs, observability, or CAD.
You've led product engineering at a company known for its craft.
You've founded a company or been an early engineer at a product-led startup.
Benefits/Perks
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
