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Nominal builds software that lets hardware teams test, iterate, and deploy as fast as software teams.
The Role
Support Nominal’s growth across corporate development, fundraising, investor relations, M&A, partnerships, FP&A, budgeting, go-to-market infrastructure, market research, organizational processes, compliance, communications, and talent initiatives. The role requires a versatile operator who can work cross-functionally, solve novel problems, manage changing priorities, and build scalable systems across the business.
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About Nominal
💼 What you'll do
🎯 We’re looking for someone with
Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.
Nominal 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.
Our 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.
Some 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 teammates who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation of world-changing hardware possible.
We're looking for a versatile operator to help build out Nominal's Business Operations function during a period of high growth. You'll have exposure to nearly every part of the business. This is a role for someone who thrives on variety, moves fast, and is energized by doing whatever it takes to help a company scale. The work will touch strategic planning, performance management, corporate development, investor relations, strategic partnerships, and more.
- Run the business: Support operational rhythms, planning cadences, communications mediums, and more to ensure Nominal's strategy is translated into operational tactics and effectively cascaded throughout the org.
- Conduct financial planning and analysis: Support FP&A, budgeting, and capital allocation.
- Drive corporate development: Contribute meaningfully to fundraising, investor relations, M&A, and partnerships.
- Build scalable go-to-market infrastructure: Develop pricing & packaging, assist with marketing campaigns, and build other collateral to support scalable sales processes and monetization.
- Support new market entrance: Perform targeted research on new products, verticals, or geographies. Articulate value propositions and manage logistics for new initiatives.
- Build analytical rigor: Develop metrics and systems that enable Nominal's leadership to have data at their fingertips, improving the quality of decisions based on real-time, automated insights.
- Strengthen how we operate: Establish and maintain organizational processes and help build a best-in-class culture as the team scales. Work cross-functionally to build alignment across the business to solve novel problems.
- Pitch in wherever needed: Talent, compliance, communications – you'll do whatever it takes to accelerate the pace and raise the quality bar at Nominal.
- 5+ years of career experience, including in internal strategy, operations, & finance roles; (ideally) professional services background (management consulting, investment banking), or other fast-paced environments
- Comfort operating across functions and context-switching between different types of work; dynamic responsibilities excite you
- High EQ and the ability to work with a variety of personalities, functions, and seniority levels; you know how to generate buy-in without relying on hierarchy
- Strong analytical skills, with a bias toward thinking in quantitative results
- Problem solver with end-to-end ownership, from issue framing to resolution
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Clear communicator, both written and verbal
- Willingness to do whatever needs doing, quickly; low ego and bias to action
🚀 Skills that supercharge us
- Familiarity with hardware industries
- Technical fluency or an engineering background is a plus
✨ Benefits/perks
- 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- 🚀 Professional Development Stipend
- 🛠️ In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
- 👶 12 weeks parental leave
- 🌱 Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- 💪 Wellness stipend ($100/month)
- 🛠️ $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 💼 401(k)
- 📈 Employee-friendly equity terms
- 🏢 In-office 5 days per week
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is $125,000 – $250,000 per year.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of career experience, including internal strategy, operations, and finance roles
- Experience in management consulting, investment banking, professional services, or another fast-paced environment
- Ability to operate across functions and manage changing responsibilities
- High emotional intelligence and ability to generate buy-in across varied personalities and seniority levels
- Strong analytical skills and quantitative orientation
- End-to-end problem-solving and ownership skills
- Strong organization and attention to detail
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to handle varied tasks quickly with a bias toward action
- Familiarity with defense, aerospace, or hardware industries
- Technical fluency or an engineering background
- TS/SCI clearance
Nominal Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nominal and has not been reviewed or approved by Nominal.
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Healthcare Strength — 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage is repeatedly described as covering both employees and dependents, indicating unusually strong healthcare provisioning. Additional mentions of “Platinum” coverage reinforce the sense of a high-tier plan offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO and paid holidays/sick time are presented as part of the core package, suggesting broad time-off benefits on paper. Parental leave is also framed as fully paid in several places, reinforcing overall leave breadth.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness stipends, daily gourmet lunch (and sometimes dinner), and periodic retreats are consistently highlighted as meaningful lifestyle perks. Learning/development and other small stipends further round out a perks-heavy total rewards posture.
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The Company
What We Do
Nominal builds the essential software stack that enables hardware teams to test and iterate as rapidly as software teams. Nominal empowers engineers to continuously monitor, validate, and deploy innovations, transforming how mission-critical hardware is built and operated.
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