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# Senior Recruiter, Commercial & Corporate at Nominal

- **Company:** Nominal
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDpj1F1F34Ajfuc-DLZIEM-s

## Job description

## About Nominal

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders like Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus and REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports, alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs where failure isn’t an option. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence.

As a Senior Recruiter, Commercial & Corporate at Nominal, you'll partner closely with leaders across the company to build talent pipelines, run thoughtful full-cycle recruiting processes, and close exceptional candidates across our commercial and corporate functions.

You'll manage hiring across our Commercial Sales team, which includes Enterprise and Mid-Market Account Executives, SDRs, RevOps, and Enablement, along with G&A and Marketing, while also flexing to support recruiting elsewhere in the company as we scale. These roles are central to how Nominal grows, and require strong sourcing instincts, thoughtful candidate evaluation, and strong closing ability.

This is a hands-on role with real ownership from day one — ideal for someone who enjoys building systems, developing strong relationships with candidates and hiring managers, and helping shape how a company grows.

🚀 What You'll Do

Manage full-cycle recruiting processes and candidate experience

- Own hiring processes end to end, from kickoff and sourcing through interviews, offer negotiation, and close, ensuring every candidate interaction reflects Nominal's standards of clarity, professionalism, and integrity.
- Partner closely with hiring managers across Sales, RevOps/Enablement, G&A, and Marketing to define hiring profiles, calibrate candidate quality, and run structured interview processes. Build strong candidate pipelines
- Source and engage high-signal candidates through direct outreach, referrals, and market mapping, building relationships with top talent across the functions you own.
- Partner with search firms supporting enterprise sales hiring today, reviewing submissions and maintaining high standards, while building toward bringing that sourcing in-house as your own pipeline capability grows. Own how we recruit
- Shape recruiting operations, sourcing strategy, and Nominal's talent brand as the company grows, building out pipeline capability wherever the need is greatest across your roles. Support the broader team
- Flex into technical, Federal, or leadership recruiting support elsewhere in the org when a specific need arises.

🔍 We're looking for someone with

- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including building a sourcing pipeline from the ground up, across more than one function (sales plus at least one other domain), not just working candidates someone else surfaced
- Experience recruiting for Commercial Sales roles, including Enterprise and Mid-Market: evaluating talent against quota performance, sales cycle length, deal complexity, and genuine fluency in concepts like sales motion and playbook-driven selling
- A track record of using recruiting and pipeline data to inform sourcing strategy — for example, adjusting channel mix, messaging, or targeting based on what the funnel data actually showed, not just anecdote-driven decisions
- A strong ability to build relationships and establish trust quickly with both candidates, hiring managers, and leadership
- A highly organized, execution-oriented approach, with a track record of operating well amid ownership and ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment
- Experience with AI tools in day-to-day recruiting work, and the initiative to adopt or create solutions rather than wait for tooling to be handed to them

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

- Experience transitioning a recruiting function from agency-dependent to in-house sourcing
- Experience explaining and closing candidates on startup compensation and equity packages
- Marketing or G&A-specific recruiting experience
- Experience recruiting in a hardware, defense, AI or deep-tech adjacent company

Great candidates rarely check every box. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.

✨ 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

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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