# Staff Software Engineer, Agents at Nominal

- Company: Nominal
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.nominal.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDpbhtDI2EeP7tnEhxkCLJKz?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nominal-staff-software-engineer-agents/

## About the role

As a Staff Engineer supporting agents, you'll design how Nominal's agents work: you'll architect the one platform our agents, the Nominal MCP, and our internal agent all run on, and set technical direction for the team that builds on it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Design and build the agent harness: orchestration, planning, tool calling, memory, and background agents that run long investigations on their own
- Own the shared tool layer that our agents and external agents (via MCP) both use, so every capability we build works everywhere
- Build how agents assemble context: retrieval across test data, documents, designs, and simulations, including sensor data far too large to fit in a context window
- Make model choice a decision, not a dependency: routing, cost, latency, and fallbacks across frontier models
- Partner with evals to make quality measurable, and with the platform team on how the context layer grows
- Set the architecture other engineers build on, and raise the bar through design reviews and mentorship


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nominal-staff-software-engineer-agents/