About | Nominal

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Nominal is the hardware intelligence platform. It keeps everything a team knows about its machines in one place, so engineers and their agents can build better machines, faster.
A letter from our founders
Some of the best engineers in the world build aircraft, spacecraft, ships and power systems. Too often they do it with tools that were never built for hardware: data scattered across drives, scripts only one person understands, and reviews that wait on someone exporting a spreadsheet.
We started Nominal because those teams deserve better. Nominal is the hardware intelligence platform. It brings every signal, log and video from development, test and operations into one place, so engineers can see what happened, why, and what to do next.
We’re building it alongside the teams who use it, in their labs, on their ranges and at their sites. Thank you for building with us.
Engineers building in the physical world work behind air gaps, across decades-old systems, and with mounds of data and context. We carry frontier technology the last mile, so it’s easy to adopt and runs wherever their hardware does.
The future won’t build itself. We help customers find every chance to move faster, and we hold ourselves to the same pace, from our product interfaces to our response times in shared channels.
Engineering decisions carry real consequences. Every agent cites its sources so engineers can check the work and make the call. Version control, annotations, and integrations are built into every application so teams work from the same record.
Our product, teams, and offices are built to build where our customers build, while architecting our systems and processes to protect customer data and IP at all costs. When they win, we help tell the story that brings the next generation of engineers to their door.
We’ve been there. We’ve watched brilliant coworkers lose weeks fighting with their tools: hunting for data, waiting on slow analysis scripts, maintaining brittle monitoring, and collaborating through PowerPoint. Nominal is the tool we wished we’d had.
Programs supported across air, sea, land, and space
Reduction in time from 'upload-start' to 'eyes-on-data'
To design and build the Quarterhorse MK1
From surfacing to validation, down from hours
Test flights per day on average
Telemetry latency to support boats and the control room
Programs supported across air, sea, land, and space
Reduction in time from 'upload-start' to 'eyes-on-data'
To design and build the Quarterhorse MK1
From surfacing to validation, down from hours
Test flights per day on average
Telemetry latency to support boats and the control room
Our investors backed frontier AI, the software the world runs on, and many of our customers. Now they’re betting on tools for engineers that build the physical world.
Nominal is the hardware intelligence platform. It brings telemetry, logs, video, simulation and engineering workflows together, giving teams the context to understand their hardware and make better decisions across development, testing, manufacturing, and operations.
Nominal serves teams across aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, maritime, manufacturing, energy and beyond, wherever complex hardware is being designed, built and operated.
Nominal was founded by Cameron McCord, Bryce Strauss and Jason Hoch, engineers and operators with experience across the Navy, defense, and enterprise software.
Nominal is backed by leading investors including Sequoia, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Insight Partners.
We have offices in Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and London.
Yes! We’re always looking for exceptional engineers, designers and operators to help build the intelligence platform for hardware. Explore our open roles on the Careers page.
Come build it with us. We’re hiring engineers, designers and operators who want their work to reach the factory floor, the test stand and the field.
Nominal, Inc · Hardware intelligence platform