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Try Nominal

Build what moves the world forward

Work alongside curious, kind people building technology for the engineers behind the world’s most ambitious machines.

Join us

  1. Who we are

    Built by the people who’ve built the machines

    Our team brings firsthand experience building, testing, and operating complex hardware.

    • Palantir
    • SpaceX
    • Anduril
    • Applied Intuition
    The Nominal team cheering together on a lawn at Camp Nominal, with a river, forest and mountains behind them
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  2. Core values

    Our core values

    Six principles that shape how we work together and show up for the engineers we serve.

    • Empower their mission

      • Their mission is our purpose
      • Serious software for serious engineers

    • Run with it

      • Own the outcome
      • Raise the bar
      • Fix things that break
      • No bystanders

    • Stay grounded

      • Character matters
      • Feedback is a gift
      • Calm under pressure

    • Foster obsession

      • Will success into reality
      • Fanatical curiosity and devotion wins
      • Teach others

    • Promote clarity

      • Writing is thinking
      • Sharing air = higher quality decisions
      • Be thorough

    • Cultivate advantage

      • Positive-sum wins
      • Leverage = endurance
      • Think in decades

    Core values

  3. Life at Nominal

    Hard problems get solved together

    We’re working together in the office or alongside our customers five days a week.

    • In-office
    • 5 days / week
    • Lunch daily
    • Six teammates, one in a flight suit, standing in front of a fighter jet in a hangar
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    • Two teammates in helmets riding e-bikes past a stand of trees
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    • A grinning teammate lining up a Lego car at the start of a red derby track
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    • A teammate in a cap and glasses focused on a laptop
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    • Twelve teammates posing on a lawn, half standing and half crouching, with forest, a river and mountains behind them
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  4. Where we build

    We build where you build

    Embedded alongside customers, with teams across the U.S. and London.

    • SEA
    • LA
    • ATX
    • DC
    • NYC
    • LDN
    • Seattle, WA · 27 open roles
    • Los Angeles, CA · 53 open roles
    • Austin, TX · 41 open roles
    • Washington, D.C. · 15 open roles
    • New York, NY · 59 open roles
    • London, UK · 12 open roles

    6 offices · 4 time zones

  5. Benefits

    Benefits built for the long haul

    Coverage for you and your family, and room to keep learning.

    Health, dental, vision
    100% covered
    Paid vacation
    Unlimited
    Parental leave
    12 weeks
    Fertility and family planning
    $15K lifetime
    Wellness stipend
    $100 / mo
    Gourmet lunch
    Daily
    Hardware sensor stipend
    $500 / yr
    Learning and development
    Stipend
    Equity
    Employee-friendly
    Retirement
    401(k)
    In office
    5 days / wk

  6. Open roles

    Help shape the future of engineering

    Explore 81 opportunities across 16 teams to do meaningful work with great people.