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They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.\nNominal is building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Hardware engineering teams use Nominal to simulate, test, manufacture, and operate the physical systems that keep the world moving, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation energy systems and robotics.\nOur customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, Wisk Aero, Pratt Miller Motorsports, Antares, and Shinkei Systems, amongst others, alongside programs within the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Tesla, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.\nSome of the world’s leading technology investors, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and Insight Partners, are backing Nominal’s ambition to change how machines are built and operated. We’re looking for engineers who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation of world-changing hardware possible.\nAbout Hardware Intelligence\nWe're the team behind Nominal's agents, AI-native applications, and MCP, and its forward-leaning AI bets. Our mission is to unlock the bottlenecks of the hardware lifecycle with AI. Our agents reason over physical reality, from high-rate telemetry and test campaigns to designs and simulations, where real test results are the ground truth their work is checked against. We believe opinionated AI, built for the real work of hardware programs, will change how the world engineers.\nWe're collaborative, iterative, and high-agency, and we're human-centered and customer-focused. We build with the newest AI tools every day, and because those tools keep changing, so do we: we stay curious and keep looking for the better way. Our team spans data science and ML, distributed systems, search, and knowledge systems, and we obsess over how agents can be genuinely useful to the engineers who rely on them.\nThe role\nAs a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Time Series & Statistical Methods, you'll give our agents real numerical tools, because LLMs alone can't reason well over millions of sensor samples, and you'll set Nominal's direction on ML for hardware data, from classical methods to deep learning.\nWhat you'll do\nBuild anomaly detection, change-point detection, and forecasting for high-rate test and fleet telemetry.\nPackage these methods as agent tools, so our agents can run real feature engineering and statistics instead of guessing.\nDevelop signal-processing and statistical methods (frequency analysis, trend fitting, run-to-run comparison) that hold up on noisy, real-world data.\nPartner with evals to measure when a method is good enough to put in front of engineers.\nSet the technical bar and roadmap for ML at Nominal, including when, and whether, to invest in learned models over classical ones.\nWhat you'll bring\n8+ years in applied ML or statistics, with production systems on time-series or sensor data.\nDeep classical grounding: statistics, signal processing, anomaly detection, and forecasting.\nHands-on deep learning: transformers, embeddings, and representation learning for sequences and sensor data.\nStrong software engineering; your methods ship as reliable, tested code.\nJudgment about simple-versus-complex: you know when a well-chosen statistical test beats a neural net, and when it doesn't.\nA track record of setting technical direction across a team and raising the bar for the engineers around you.\nYou build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. 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