Staff Engineer — AI Agents Platform & Architecture

Nominal; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Unlimited PTO

Dev stipend

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Nominal is hiring a Staff Engineer to design and lead the Nominal MCP platform for agents. You will architect the core platform, set technical direction, and mentor a team building with AI-native tools. Experience shipping production LLMS or agent systems is essential.

You will own the shared tool layer, influence context management, and partner with evals and platform teams to scale capabilities across complex hardware lifecycle domains.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production systems, including LLMS or agent systems.
• Strong distributed-systems and backend fundamentals.
• Opinions about agent architecture and context management.
• Track record of setting technical direction across a team.
• Experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).

Responsibilities

• Design the agent harness and orchestration.
• Own the shared tool layer for agents and MCP.
• Architect context assembly from test data and simulations.
• Guide model selection, routing, latency, and fallbacks.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend fundamentals

Agent architecture

Technical leadership

AI coding agents

Tools

N/A

Job description

Nominal is hiring a Staff Engineer to design and lead the Nominal MCP platform for agents. You will architect the core platform, set technical direction, and mentor a team building with AI-native tools. Experience shipping production LLMS or agent systems is essential.

You will own the shared tool layer, influence context management, and partner with evals and platform teams to scale capabilities across complex hardware lifecycle domains.