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# Product Marketing Lead at Nominal

- **Company:** Nominal
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Compensation:** $200k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDrd2ShpOvCHlvBn5pLV9vKk

## Job description

## About Nominal

Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.

Nominal is building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Hardware engineering teams use Nominal to simulate, test, manufacture, and operate the physical systems that keep the world moving, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation energy systems and robotics.

Our customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, Wisk Aero, Pratt Miller Motorsports, Antares, and Shinkei Systems, amongst others, alongside programs within the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Tesla, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

Some of the world’s leading technology investors, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and Insight Partners, are backing Nominal’s ambition to change how machines are built and operated.

🚀 About the role Product Marketing owns how the world understands the our Hardware Intelligence Platform, and why Nominal leads it. It's a category we're creating, so the job is less about competing for space on someone else's map and more about drawing the map engineers will use for the next decade. As our first Product Marketing Lead, you'll define the category, launch what we ship, and write the technical content that shows engineers what a modern hardware stack can be. You'll report to Bryce Strauss, co-founder.

This role is ideal for an engineer who discovered they'd rather explain the system than build it, or a product marketer who has earned a seat in design reviews. You'll set the narrative standard for Nominal and spend as much time with customers as with our product team, sometimes embedded with our Strategic and Enterprise account teams to help them go further. You'll prove ideas by building them: a positioning thesis becomes a working mini site, and a launch story becomes a live demo, before anyone debates a slide. Four things are non-negotiable: technical depth, taste, time in the field, and building with AI.

👨🏻‍💻 What You'll Do

- Create the category. Define hardware intelligence: what it is, what it isn't, and why it matters, until engineers, buyers, and analysts use our language to describe their own problem.
- Own every launch. Partner with Product and Engineering from the first spec, so each release ships with a clear answer to what an engineer can do now that they couldn't before.
- Map the modern hardware stack. Build reference architectures, teardowns, and technical guides that show engineers what best-in-class looks like, including the partners and tools we work alongside.
- Turn releases into customer value. Work with Sales Enablement to translate what we ship into demos, talk tracks, and proof that hold up under a skeptical technical evaluation.
- Own our personas. Spend real time with customers, from test engineers to program executives, and keep a living picture of their workflows, objections, and what moves them to change.
- Go forward-deployed. Embed with Strategic and Enterprise account teams on the deals and expansions that matter most, and bring what you learn back to Product.
- Build, don't just brief. Use agents and AI tools to prototype positioning as mini sites, demos, and interactive explainers, and turn sales calls and field notes into a living system that shows what customers value.

🔍 We're looking for someone with

- An engineering background or equivalent technical depth: you know the tools of the trade today, and words like "frequency domain" and "FMEA” and "hardware-in-the-loop" are in your wheelhouse.
- AI-native working habits: you'd rather ship a mini site that tests a positioning thesis than argue for it in a deck. Or, better yet, you have built an agent knowledge base so the team can self serve positioning to a new vertical. We'll ask what you've built!
- A track record of product marketing for complex technical products sold to technical buyers, with launches you can point to and the adoption or pipeline they drove.
- Experience creating or redefining a category and setting the narrative others build on, with results felt across Sales, Product, and Marketing. You’re willing to go deep to understand the “why” behind any product decision and customer need.
- Writing that engineers respect: precise, specific, and free of hype / jargon. Bonus points if you can bring something you wrote that taught a technical reader something new.
- Taste in how technical stories look as well as read, from a reference architecture to a demo storyboard to a one-pager that is both beautiful and correct.
- Comfort in front of customers, from a working session with test engineers to a briefing with a program executive.

⚡ Skills that accelerate us

- Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, or industrial engineering, as an engineer or working closely alongside them.
- Background in solutions engineering, developer relations, or technical product management.
- Experience with ecosystem or partner marketing, positioning a platform alongside the tools it connects to.
- Experience marketing data infrastructure, observability, simulation, or developer platforms to engineering teams.

✨ Benefits/Perks

- 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- 🚀 Professional Development Stipend
- 🛠️ In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
- 👶 12 weeks parental leave
- 🌱 Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- 💪 Wellness stipend ($100/month)
- 🛠️ $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 💼 401(k)
- 📈 Employee-friendly equity terms
- 🏢 In-office 5 days per week

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

ITAR Requirements 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](https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987).

## About Nominal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nominal provides a unified industrial data stack that enables hardware engineering teams to test, analyze, and operate mission-critical systems with the speed of software development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Cameron McCord (Co-founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Aerospace & Defense, Hardware Testing, Industrial Data Infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – Engineering teams at startups, enterprises, and government agencies building complex hardware (e.g., autonomous vehicles, space systems, hypersonics)
- Mission: "Equip engineers to test and operate critical technology" – delivering the tools and infrastructure to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.

## Products & Services
- **[Nominal Core](https://nominal.io)**: A cloud-based collaborative workspace that ingests, structures, and analyzes telemetry, logs, video, and simulation results. Provides real-time mission control, trend analysis, and automated reporting to accelerate development, production, and operations. (SaaS)
- **[Nominal Connect](https://nominal.io)**: An edge compute platform for hardware test. Deploys Python-based test apps on-premises, turns scripts into operator-ready interfaces, and runs tests deterministically at the edge (lab, remote range, air-gapped). Automatically syncs results to Core for deeper analysis. (On-premise/Edge software)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$182.5M** across 5 rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, and a non-equity assistance)
- **Notable Investors**: Founders Fund (led Series B), General Catalyst (led Series A), Lux Capital (led Seed), and Sequoia Capital (partnered 2025)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+202.5% YoY** to 196 employees (as of 2026)
  - 17,984 LinkedIn followers (+209.7% yearly)
  - Customer Anduril reduced test review time from 5+ hours to near real-time across 300+ engineers
  - Active job postings: 67 (up +346.7% yearly)
  - Offices in Los Angeles (HQ), New York, Austin, Pflugerville (TX)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that replaces fragmented test tools – one data model for telemetry, logs, video, simulations, and documents
- **Built by engineers from Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin** – deep domain expertise in mission-critical hardware
- **Edge-to-cloud architecture** that works in air-gapped, offline, and secure environments
- **Enterprise-grade security and scale** with support for startups, large enterprises, and government deployments
- **Open API, SDKs, and integration ecosystem** allowing teams to modernize legacy systems without disruption

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling the platform to serve larger defense and aerospace programs (e.g., integrated programs, fleet management)
- Expand into manufacturing test lines and production environments (scaling test code from prototype to manufacturing)
- Deepen government partnerships and secure FedRAMP or similar certifications
- Grow headcount aggressively, especially in engineering, mission operations, and sales roles

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Engineers building for Engineers" – a tight-knit team of operators and builders from Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, and more. High ownership, real impact on hardware that flies, launches, or defends.
- **Work Policy**: In-office **5 days per week** (LA, NY, Austin, Pflugerville). Gourmet lunch provided daily.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and family)
  - Unlimited paid vacation
  - 12-weeks parental leave
  - Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
  - $500/year hardware sensor stipend
  - Wellness stipend ($100/month)
  - 401K with employer match
  - Learning & development stipend
  - Employee-friendly equity terms
- **Growth Trajectory**: Over 200% yearly headcount growth, recent Series B funding, and a clear mission to accelerate the "hardware renaissance" – strong signal for career growth and impact.

## Sources
1. [Nominal Careers Page](https://nominal.io/careers)
2. [Nominal About Us](https://nominal.io/about-us)
3. [Nominal Product Page](https://nominal.io/?j=35813&sfmc_sub=16110646&l=1582_HTML&u=1011363&mid=546014653&jb=234&sfmc_id=16110646)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/nominal-inc)
5. [Sequoia Capital Portfolio](https://sequoiacap.com/companies/nominal/)

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