Mechanical Engineer

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).

As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll design, build, and test the mechanisms inside our robotic pharmacy. This is a hands‑on role. You’ll 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 aren’t looking for years on a resume. We’re 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.

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

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

We don’t care about your degrees. We care about what you can show us!

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