Test and telemetry data platform for hardware engineering teams
Nominal builds software for hardware teams to run tests and analyze telemetry in real time, backed by a heavy time-series stack (ClickHouse, Druid, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Flink, Arrow). Bazel plus monorepo and CI/CD pain points show an engineering-heavy org scaling its build systems, while defense deal closure and a Navy classified-network deployment point to a federal go-to-market push.
Nominal is a privately held software company founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, with 51–200 employees. It provides a platform that hardware engineering teams use to execute tests, review results as they arrive, and collaborate across disciplines. Its customer base includes defense and federal programs, with work extending to deployments in operational field settings. The company runs across AWS, Azure and GCP and hires in the United States and United Kingdom.
Nominal uses Java, Go, Rust and Python on AWS, Azure and GCP, with Kubernetes, Terraform and Bazel, plus ClickHouse, Druid, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Flink and Spark for data.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and skews heavily toward senior and mid-level engineering, alongside sales roles focused on defense and federal accounts, in the United States and United Kingdom.
Nominal is building resilient data pipelines, observability infrastructure and large-scale build systems, and deploying its technology on a classified network for a Navy flight test squadron.
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