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Senior Recruiter, Commercial & Corporate

Nominal · Los Angeles, United States · On-site

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About Nominal

Nominal powers mission-critical engineering with advanced data infrastructure, real-time observability, and analysis tools — all in one collaborative platform. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

Manage full-cycle recruiting processes and candidate experience

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • 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
More about this role

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,...

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