Software Engineer, Nominal
Developer Infrastructure - Build Systems
$130-230k
Unified software suite to test and operate hardware
Posted today
Unified software suite to test and operate hardware
201-500 employees
Posted today
$130-230k
201-500 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 building, optimizing, and maintaining build systems at scale
- Experience with Bazel or similar build systems
- Experience working in and scaling large monorepos
- A track record of improving CI/CD performance, release reliability, and developer productivity using measurable outcomes
- Practical, startup-minded engineering philosophy - You don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but you approach problems from first principles and build solutions that scale
- Comfortable owning developer infrastructure end to end, from build tooling and CI/CD to release automation and engineering productivity
- 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
Desirable
- Datadog
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Audit logging
- Kubernetes
- Remote build caches
- Ephemeral development environments, or other developer platform tooling
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Software Engineer to join Nominal's Developer Infrastructure team
- You'll develop the build infrastructure that every engineer at Nominal depends on, with an eye towards continuously optimizing the build performance and local devx to better scale with our growing engineering organization
- You'll also own the developer infrastructure that keeps engineering velocity and release quality high, such as observability, pre-merge validation, and more
- As one of the founding engineers on the team, you'll shape the tooling, developer experience, and engineering practices that every engineer at Nominal relies on from day one
- Build, optimize, and maintain Nominal's large-scale build systems, with Bazel as the highest priority
- Improve CI/CD pipeline performance, release automation, and release reliability
- Own developer infrastructure that enables engineering velocity as our monorepo and engineering organization scale
- Build and maintain observability, telemetry, logging, and metrics infrastructure using tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Partner closely with product engineering teams to remove developer friction and improve day-to-day engineering productivity
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 is being 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.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2026
$80m
SERIES B
Jun 2025
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $182.5m
Company benefits
- 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and family)
- $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 12-weeks parental leave
- In-office 5 days per week
- 401K
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- Unlimited paid vacation
- Wellness Stipend ($100/mo)
- Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- Learning & development stipend
- Gourmet lunch provided daily
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)Previously 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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