Product Designer - New Grad (Summer 2027)

Nominal•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

Nominal is seeking designers graduating in 2027 or sooner for a full-time, early-career product design role. The designer will own defined features and product improvements with support from experienced designers and close collaboration with engineering and product. The role offers opportunities to bring new capabilities to life, learn directly from customers, and develop product-design judgment. The work supports engineers testing and validating complex hardware systems, including nuclear reactors, rockets, and supersonic aircraft. The designer will translate complex, high-frequency hardware and data workflows into intuitive product experiences; collaborate with engineers and customers to understand workflows and test solutions; research and prototype with AI; own feature design from exploration through implementation; refine interactions with engineers; contribute reusable design-system patterns and components; and help shape the design culture through early sharing, constructive feedback, and customer-informed decisions.

Requirements

Graduating in 2027 or sooner and seeking a full-time product design role as a new graduate or early-career designer.
Portfolio demonstrating strong visual design fundamentals and product thinking through academic work, personal projects, internships, or professional experience.
Ability to translate a user problem into clear flows, detailed interface designs, and prototypes.
Ability to explain design decisions and refine them based on feedback, user needs, and technical constraints.
Initiative to clarify unfamiliar problems and collaborate with others to move work forward.

Nice To Haves

Experience collaborating with engineers to bring a design into a working product.
Experience using AI tools to explore ideas or build prototypes.
Experience designing data visualizations, complex workflows, or tools for technical users.

Responsibilities

Translate complex, high-frequency hardware and data workflows into intuitive product experiences.
Partner with engineers and customers to understand workflows, identify pain points, and test potential solutions.
Collaborate with design, engineering, and product to research, prototype with AI, and contribute to product improvements and features.
Own the design of defined features from initial exploration through implementation, clarifying scope and making tradeoffs with the team.
Collaborate with engineers throughout development to refine interactions and deliver usable experiences.
Contribute reusable design-system patterns and components to improve consistency and usability across the platform.
Share work early, give constructive feedback, and use customer insights to inform product decisions.