Lead Sales Engineer
Nominal
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
🚀 About the role
- Solution scoping & collaboration — Collaborate deeply with Sales, Mission, Product, and Engineering teams to understand customer requirements, scope feasible solutions, and align on technical feasibility.
- Customer discovery & advocacy — Gain holistic insight into customer pain points and feedback to understand and quantify ways Nominal can benefit; while also helping to refine Nominal’s roadmap and messaging.
- Technical pre-sales excellence — Deliver persuasive, tailored demos, PoCs, and technical presentations, effectively communicating Nominal’s platform value to C-level executives, systems architects, engineering leads, testing managers, and IT stakeholders.
- Customize & prototype — Design custom demo workflows, extensions, or integrations (e.g. data ingestion pipelines, automation scripts) that showcase how Nominal delivers real-world impact across ambiguous or edge-case scenarios.
- Strategic opportunities — Partner with Account Executives to build account plans, identify internal champions, and navigate complex buying processes—including IT, compliance, and financial stakeholders.
- Team enablement & knowledge sharing — Co-create battle cards, talk tracks, and technical collateral. Mentor junior team members and support the evolution of Nominal’s pre-sales methodology.
🔍 We're looking for someone with
- Proven experience: 5–10 years in technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or sales engineering roles at high-growth enterprise software companies, ideally with exposure to aerospace, defense, or industrial customers. You’ve consistently partnered with Account Executives to close complex, multi-stakeholder deals, and can point to examples where your technical guidance directly enabled customer adoption.
- Technical fluency — You’re deeply conversant in cloud infra and analytics tooling (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Influx, Grafana) and can speak confidently with engineers in hardware or systems domains.
- Coding & data proficiency – You have expertise in coding with SQL, Python, and Pandas, as well as familiarity with Spark, Arrow, Kafka, Beam, and Flink.
- Solution-selling mastery — You’ve successfully supported sales of technical platforms—ideally (but not necessary) in aerospace, defense, industrial automation, or manufacturing—and know how to integrate technical messaging into a compelling narrative.
- Collaborative & customer-obsessed — You thrive when aligning cross-functionally and building trust with customers and internal stakeholders alike.
- Adaptability & ownership — You flourish in dynamic, startup-like environments and can pivot quickly in ambiguous scenarios.
- Travel readiness — Willing to travel ~25-50% to visit customer sites (e.g., manufacturing floors, test facilities, cleanrooms).
⚡ Skills that supercharge us
- Demo creation and delivery: 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. [Insert]
- In-field hardware mastery: Proficiency with hardware engineering tools such as DAQs, DDS, Nix, RTOS, MCAP, H5, TDMS, LabView, MATLAB/Simulink, and WinPlot.
- Technical background or degree: Background in computer science, mechanical engineering, or other heavy industry
✨ Benefits/Perks
- 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- 🚀 Professional development stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
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