Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer

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Newark, CA, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Healthtech • Robotics
The Role
Own end-to-end electrical subsystem design for an autonomous robotic pharmacy system, including requirements, schematics, PCB layout, prototyping, testing, and production bring-up. Design power, motor control, sensor, and mixed-signal circuits; qualify components; troubleshoot signal integrity, thermal, and EMC issues; and collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams on system integration, documentation, compliance, and production readiness.
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About Us

We're Queue, the world's 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.

We’re 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 Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer, you will own the end-to-end design of complex electrical subsystems — from requirements capture through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring-up — on a first-of-its-kind autonomous robotic pharmacy dispensing system. This role carries significant technical ownership and offers the opportunity to shape both the hardware architecture and the team's engineering standards in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

 

What You'll Do

  • Own the full lifecycle of electrical subsystem design across power distribution, motor drive, sensor interfaces, and mixed-signal circuits — from initial requirements through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring-up

  • Create and maintain schematics, PCB layouts, and bills of materials, following established design and release processes while driving improvements to team-wide standards for documentation, layout, and test coverage

  • Evaluate and qualify sensors, actuators, and power management components for use in a regulated pharmaceutical environment

  • Define and execute testing specifications across subsystems to ensure each component meets intended functionality and safe operating conditions; document findings, root causes, and lessons learned to support continuous improvement

  • Investigate and resolve challenging hardware issues across prototyping and production, including signal integrity, thermal, and EMC problems

  • Collaborate with firmware and mechanical engineers to co-develop interface definitions, connector pinouts, harness routing, and integration test plans that simplify system integration

  • Apply DFM, DFT, and supply chain considerations to ensure designs are production-ready from the start

 

What You Bring

  • 5–10+ years of electrical engineering experience, with hands-on design work across multiple product development cycles and demonstrated technical leadership on multi-board or multi-subsystem products

  • Track record of owning complex electrical subsystems end-to-end — from requirements through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring-up

  • Experience designing and validating circuits for power distribution, motor control, sensing, or communication interfaces in electromechanical systems

  • Deep expertise in one or more core domains — power electronics, motor drives, sensor interfaces, or mixed-signal design — with working breadth across the others

  • Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB layout, and BOM management using industry-standard tools such as Altium, KiCad, or equivalent

  • Strong debugging and bench skills, with the ability to bring up new boards, characterize performance, and drive issues to root cause across signal integrity, thermal, and EMC challenges

  • Experience driving design reviews and contributing to team-wide standards for schematics, layout, documentation, and test coverage

  • Familiarity with compliance testing and design practices related to EMC, safety, or environmental standards

  • Strong documentation habits, with an emphasis on capturing design rationale, test results, and lessons learned

How We Hire

  1. Recruiter Screen: (30 min)

  2. Manager + Technical Interview (60 min)

  3. Technical Interview: (60 min)

  4. Leadership Interview: (60 min)

 

What We Offer

  • Early-stage equity in automated pharmacy dispensing at scale

  • Direct impact — your work helps put medication safely in patients’ hands

  • Small team, zero bureaucracy, high trust

  • Hard problems: distributed systems, safety-critical software, regulatory compliance, 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 work 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 genuinely novel problems at the intersection of AI, robotics, and healthcare

    • Career Acceleration: High-visibility role with significant growth potential as the company scales

  • Team and Culture

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

    • Reports to the Head of Electrical Engineering with significant autonomy and influence

    • 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: 4,000 pharmacies close each year and deserts are spreading - we’re 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: There’s 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 [email protected]

Skills Required

  • 5-10+ years of electrical engineering experience across multiple product development cycles
  • Hands-on experience owning complex electrical subsystems from requirements through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring-up
  • Experience designing and validating power distribution, motor control, sensing, or communication interface circuits in electromechanical systems
  • Deep expertise in power electronics, motor drives, sensor interfaces, or mixed-signal design
  • Proficiency with schematic capture, PCB layout, and BOM management using Altium, KiCad, or equivalent tools
  • Strong hardware debugging and bench skills, including board bring-up and root-cause analysis of signal integrity, thermal, and EMC issues
  • Experience driving design reviews and establishing standards for schematics, layout, documentation, and test coverage
  • Familiarity with EMC, safety, or environmental compliance testing and design practices
  • Strong documentation skills covering design rationale, test results, and lessons learned
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The Company
20 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

Queue is a Silicon Valley healthcare-technology company building the world’s first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy. Its system converts sealed wholesale medication bottles into filled and verified prescription vials with zero human involvement. Combining robotics, hardware, software, and pharmacy operations, Queue aims to make prescriptions more accessible and affordable, deliver medicines in 60 seconds or less, and let pharmacists focus on counseling and clinical work.

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