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Job Summary:
Nominal is building an advanced platform for hardware systems, and they are seeking a Solution Engineer to lead technical discovery and develop tailored solutions for federal customers. The role involves collaborating with various teams to integrate Nominal's capabilities into customer systems and delivering impactful demonstrations.
Responsibilities:
• Lead technical discovery to deeply understand customer systems, data environments, workflows, and constraints
• Collaborate closely with Business Development, Strategic Engagement, Mission, Product, and Engineering teams to translate mission needs into solution architectures, defining how Nominal integrates into existing stacks and delivers measurable impact
• Deliver tailored demos and technical presentations that effectively communicate Nominal’s capabilities and value to customer decision-makers, systems architects, engineering leads, testing managers, and IT stakeholders
• Design custom demos and integration approaches that showcase how Nominal delivers real-world impact across ambiguous or edge-case scenarios
• Build “proof of value” through prototypes, sample integrations, and customer-driven demonstrations that reduce technical risk
• Partner with Business Development to advance deals, shaping technical strategy, identifying champions, and addressing objections
• Develop reusable technical assets (demos, datasets, playbooks, collateral) to improve consistency and speed across opportunities
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years in technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or sales engineering roles at high-growth enterprise software companies, with experience working with defense or federal customers
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Business Development or Sales counterparts to scope, qualify, and cultivate complex, multi-stakeholder technical opportunities
• Technical fluency in software infrastructure and analytics tooling (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Influx, Grafana) and can speak confidently with engineers in hardware or systems domains
• Coding experience in SQL, Python, or Pandas, as well as familiarity with streaming/data infrastructure (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Arrow, etc.)
• Experience integrating technical messaging into a compelling narrative to advance opportunities, increase customer adoption, and grow champions
• Exceptional communication skills—especially the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—ideally within a startup or high-growth company
• Willing to travel up to 25%
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance is an advantage
Preferred:
• Ability to develop 'outside-in' demo environments that start from the perspective of a target industry or vertical, design representative telemetry data and stories that illustrate Nominal’s value in real-world contexts, and showcase hardware test scenarios in front of executive and engineering audiences
• Exposure to hardware systems, test environments, or telemetry pipelines
• Proficiency with hardware engineering tools such as DAQs, DDS, Nix, RTOS, MCAP, H5, TDMS, LabView, MATLAB/Simulink, and WinPlot
Company:
Nominal develops software platforms that support hardware engineering teams with testing, monitoring, and analysis of operational data. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Austin, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.