Nominal
The Staff Research Engineer role at Nominal focuses on defining evaluation metrics and building post-training pipelines for AI agents used in hardware engineering. This position involves creating evaluation suites, inventing new benchmarks, and establishing infrastructure to measure agent performance against real-world tasks. The role also includes leading post-training efforts such as fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to optimize models for various deployment environments.
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California, United States
Company Size
11-50 employees
Founded
2022
Nominal is a unified software suite designed to help engineering teams test and operate hardware faster and with greater confidence. Its platform combines Nominal Core, an all-in-one cloud data platform for capturing and analyzing telemetry, video, logs, and simulation results, with Nominal Connect, an edge compute platform for deploying and automating hardware test applications. Nominal serves mission-critical programs across aviation, defense, space, maritime, and energy industries, enabling real-time observability, collaborative analysis, and end-to-end traceability across the hardware lifecycle.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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