Software Engineer, Nominal
Rust / Bevy / WebGPU
$120-180k
+ Equity and stock options
Unified industrial data stack
Be an early applicant
Unified industrial data stack
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-180k
+ Equity and stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide the tools and infrastructure engineers need to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in Rust (or equivalent systems languages)
- Deep familiarity with Bevy, including custom ECS components, render pipelines, and asset systems
- Hands-on experience with WebGPU or wgpu, including shader programming (WGSL/GLSL) and real-time rendering concepts
- UI experience with egui or other immediate-mode frameworks; ability to design responsive, intuitive technical interfaces
- Strong understanding of game engine and simulation architecture — scenes, entities, transforms, and event systems
- Familiarity with real-time data visualization, 3D math, and asynchronous data streams (e.g., telemetry, sensor feeds)
- Comfortable working across low-level graphics code and high-level UX — from optimizing GPU passes to polishing user interactions
- Bonus: experience with Rust async ecosystems, Polars / Arrow, or gRPC / WebSocket streaming backends
- Bonus: contributions to open-source Rust projects (Bevy, egui, wgpu, or similar)
What the job involves
- As a Rust Visualization & Systems Engineer, you’ll design and implement the real-time 3D and UI layers that let engineers explore complex telemetry, simulations, and control systems. You’ll work directly with our data pipelines and physics engines to render live system state using Bevy, WebGPU, and egui, bringing real-world data to life in a fast, intuitive, and extensible way. If you love writing elegant, high-performance Rust, designing immersive visualization systems, and making real-time data beautiful and responsive, we’d love to meet you
- Build interactive 3D and 2D visualizations using Bevy and WebGPU, optimized for real-time telemetry and simulation
- Develop advanced ECS-based rendering and scene-graph systems for large-scale, dynamic data environments
- Design and implement egui-based UIs for real-time control, telemetry playback, and system monitoring
- Collaborate with data infrastructure engineers to stream and visualize high-frequency telemetry with minimal latency
- Contribute to cross-platform runtime architecture supporting both native and WebAssembly builds
- Profile and optimize performance across CPU, GPU, and memory boundaries to achieve smooth frame pacing and determinism
- Shape the visual and interaction paradigms that define Nominal’s end-user experience for engineers working on mission-critical hardware
Our take
Whilst leading workflow platforms such as Monday and Basecamp are designed for general use, teams in more specific industries may benefit from experiences designed for their sector. Nominal has built a data analysis platform and workflow system tailored to the needs of engineering teams managing complex machines in industries such as aerospace and defense.
Nominal’s platform caters to engineering teams who develop, validate and monitor hardware, enabling them to build observability and control over mission-critical machines. It automates routine tasks and streamlines collaboration between team members, ensuring that all stages of a machine’s development have rigorous oversight.
Having only come out of stealth in 2024, Nominal’s path to market has been accelerated by several rounds of funding. This will be used to expand operations and business reach as it attempts to cut into a competitive market. With its target audience pitch well articulated, the company has become the fastest-growing software platform in hardware development with 6X customer growth across aerospace, defense, energy, robotics and manufacturing.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2025
$75m
SERIES B
Apr 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $102.5m
Company benefits
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
- Unlimited paid vacation
- 12-weeks parental leave
- Strong in-office [ATX, LA, NYC] culture
- Gourmet lunch provided daily
- Work-station stipend
- 401K
- Learning & development stipend
Company HQ
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Jason Hoch
(Co-Founder)Previously a Software Engineer/Engineering Lead at Vercel, Newfront Insurance and Palantir Technologies.
Cameron McCord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Investor at Lux Capital. Was also Head of Defense at Saildrone, Advisor at Applied Intuition, and worked in Product and Growth at Anduril Industries.
Bryce Strauss
(Co-Founder)Was an MBS and MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School, as well as Summer Associate at The Engine and a member of the Executive Leadership Development Programme at Lockheed Martin.
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