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 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.

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 You’ll 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 don’t 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

0–3 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