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Nominal builds a test execution and real-time analytics platform for hardware engineering teams. The stack reveals a company handling mission-critical, air-gapped environments: heavy use of embedded OSes (QNX, RTEMS, FreeRTOS, VxWorks), industrial protocols (EtherCAT, MIL-STD-1553), and time-series infrastructure (Druid, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB) alongside cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP). Current adoption of React/Tailwind/shadcn suggests a UI/UX investment phase. Pain points cluster around high-frequency telemetry, distributed system complexity, and air-gapped deployment — all pointing toward a platform solving real-time validation at scale in defense and regulated hardware contexts.
Tech Stack 66 technologies
Core StackC++ Rust Python Java Go AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform InfluxDB ClickHouse TimescaleDB Kafka Apache Spark Apache Flink PostgreSQL gRPC QNX RTEMS FreeRTOS VxWorks EtherCAT MIL-STD-1553 PyVISA Azure GCP Parquet Druid Apache Arrow Redpanda+36 more
What Nominal Is Building
◆Challenges
- Complex distributed systems
- High-rate telemetry ingestion
- Optimizing ci/cd pipelines
- Ensuring consistent environments
- Critical testing outcomes
- Real-time telemetry validation
- Deploying on air-gapped environments
- High-scale mission-critical problems
- Accelerating software infrastructure
- Optimizing test and validation workflows
▲Active Projects
- Infrastructure scaling across air-gapped, cloud, on-prem
- Core hil runtime
- Developer tooling platform
- High-frequency hardware data infrastructure
- Resilient data pipelines and integration workflows
- Deploy nominal on customer-owned cloud accounts
- Real-time backbone of test automation and simulation platform
- Pipeline creation for defense accounts
- Integrating connect platform with real-world test environments
- Automating release gating
Hiring Activity
80 roles · 30 in 30d
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