Mechanical Engineer

About Us

Were Queue the worlds first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy. We go from sealed wholesale bottles to filled verified prescription vials with zero human involvement.

We built Queue because no one should ever have to wait in line for the medicines they need. One in three US pharmacies has shut down. Pharmacists are overworked to a breaking point. And patients are paying the price. Queue fixes that. Pharmacists get to practice pharmacy again counseling patients catching interactions doing the work only they can do. And patients get their prescriptions in 60 seconds or less any time anywhere.

Were backed by over $18 million from Alleycorp Riot Ventures Ubiquity Ventures House Capital and others who believe the pharmacy system is broken and that robotics can fix it. Queue was founded by Nick Desai (6x founder previously CEO of Heal) and Joshua Liu (previously Tesla Waymo and Zipline).

About the Role

As a Mechanical Engineer youll design build and test the mechanisms inside our robotic pharmacy. This is a hands-on role. Youll take parts and subassemblies from a sketch and a hand calculation to hardware running on the bench then break it learn from it and build the next one.

We arent looking for years on a resume. Were looking for people who build things and who can explain from first principles why their design works. If you can draw the free-body diagram estimate the answer before you open the simulation and then go make the part yourself we want to meet you.

Youll work side by side with senior engineers who own the system architecture. Youll own real hardware early and your scope will grow as fast as your judgment does.

What makes this role extraordinary

Your hardware will handle real medication for real patients. Few early-career roles let you design a mechanism build it with your own hands watch it fail fix it and see it go into a product headed for nationwide deployment.

What Youll Do

Build and Iterate:

• Design fabricate and assemble prototype mechanisms fixtures and test rigs yourself

• Use the fastest method that answers the question: 3D printing laser cutting manual and CNC machining or hand tools

• Assemble debug and rework hardware on the bench alongside our technicians

• Run short loops: build something learn from it and improve it in days not months

Engineering Judgment from First Principles:

• Start every design with a sketch a free-body diagram and a hand calculation before CAD or simulation

• Size springs motors bearings shafts and fasteners from loads energy and duty cycle

• Choose materials and finishes for stated reasons: strength stiffness wear fatigue and cost

• Run tolerance stack-ups on the interfaces that matter and know which ones those are

• State your assumptions decide what is good enough and check your prediction against the hardware

Test and Learn:

• Write simple test plans instrument your builds and collect data you trust

• Compare results to your calculations and explain the gap

• Find the root cause when something breaks not just the patch

• Record what you learned so the next engineer can build on it

Grow into Production Design:

• Create parts in CAD and release drawings a shop can build from

• Learn design for manufacturing (DFM) by working with senior engineers and our suppliers on machined molded and sheet metal parts

• Work with electrical and software engineers to integrate motors sensors and harnesses

• Help carry designs from prototype toward systems that run reliably 24/7 in a pharmacy

Required Qualifications and Experiences

We dont care about your degrees. We care about what you can show us! Send us your resume and portfolio with photos and video of things you built including the ones that failed and what you changed.

• Builder first: A portfolio of hardware you designed and physically made. Project teams internships research and personal projects all count

• 03 years of hands-on mechanical or mechatronic engineering experience in industry or out of it

• First-principles fundamentals: Working command of statics dynamics mechanics of materials and machine design. You can go from a sketch to a free-body diagram to a number and defend the number

• Engineering judgment: You can explain why you chose a material a mechanism or a tolerance and what you traded away to get it

• Hands-on fabrication: Comfortable in a shop with 3D printers hand tools and basic machining. You debug with a caliper and a multimeter not just a screen

• CAD proficiency: Solid part and assembly modeling in a 3D CAD platform (OnShape SolidWorks Creo) and drawings clear enough to build from

• Ownership: You finish what you start say what you dont know and learn fast from feedback

Nice to Have:

• Mechanisms with moving parts: linkages cams gear trains linear stages grippers dispensers

• Mechatronics basics: motors sensors and a microcontroller you wired and programmed yourself

• Tolerance analysis and GD&T on parts that had to fit and function

• Exposure to manufacturing methods such as machining injection molding sheet metal or casting

• Python or MATLAB for test data and quick calculations

• Simulation (FEA) used to check a hand calculation not replace it

How We Hire

• Recruiter Screen (30 min)

• Hiring Manager Interview (60 min): walk us through something you built

• Embedded Technical Interview (60 min): work a design problem from first principles

• Technical presentation to the team (60 min)

• Leadership Interview (30 min)

What We Offer

• Early-stage equity in automated pharmacy dispensing at scale

• Direct impact: your hardware dispenses medication to real patients

• Small team zero bureaucracy high trust

• Hard problems: precision mechanisms high-reliability hardware regulatory compliance and real-time hardware integration

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Meaningful early-stage equity

• Health 401(k) unlimited PTO

Why Join Us Now

• Impact & Growth

  • Direct Patient Impact: Your hardware will improve healthcare outcomes for millions of patients

  • Market Leadership: Ground-floor opportunity to define an entirely new category of healthcare technology

  • Technical Innovation: Work on novel problems at the intersection of AI robotics and healthcare

  • Career Acceleration: Real ownership early with scope that grows as the company scales

• Team and Culture

  • World-Class Team: Learn alongside exceptional engineers AI researchers and healthcare experts

  • Direct Access: Work directly with the co-founders with real autonomy and genuine influence over decisions

  • Innovation Focus: Culture that prioritizes breakthrough thinking and rapid experimentation

  • Mission-Driven: Team united around the goal of transforming healthcare through technology

Our Values

• Servant Leadership: Make those around you better. We serve our teams the way Queue serves communities: 4000 pharmacies close each year and deserts are spreading - were here to reverse that.

• Do the Hard Things: Healthcare hardware and company-building are all hard. We do them anyway. Convenience for us is life-changing for those we serve.

• Own Your Work: Be accountable; take pride in what you ship. Queue lives and dies by what you do - own it fully.

• Default is Now: Theres never a better time than today. Default to action: what can we prove learn or simplify right now

Contact: If you have any questions please contact us at

Required Experience:

IC