Careers at robotrx.ai

POSITION: Electrical Engineer Lead

LOCATION: Newark, CA (Hybrid)

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: FTE

REPORTING STRUCTURE: Director of Electrical Engineering

About Us

The American pharmacy system currently struggles to meet patient needs. Long wait times, overworked staff, and outdated infrastructure have compromised reliable access to essential medications.

We are addressing these challenges today. We are a stealth-mode physical AI company working on a robotic pharmacy product. We are not just conceptualizing the pharmacy of the future; we are building it now.

About the role

• Lead the electrical engineering design, development, and validation of power, control, motion, and sensing subsystems in our devices
• Define the electrical architecture and establish component selection standards that balance reliability, cost, and regulatory compliance for a pharmaceutical environment
• Drive schematic and PCB layout reviews, ensuring designs meet safety, EMC, and relevant medical quality standards before release to manufacturing
• Partner with the firmware, software, and mechanical engineering leads to align on interface specifications, data handling, signal routing, wire harness definition, and integration timelines across disciplines
• Spearhead the testing strategy to ensure all validation and verification activities provide sufficient coverage of the product features and expected failure recovery modes

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering, with at least 3 years leading a team of electrical engineers
• Track record of shipping complex electromechanical products from concept through mass production, with ownership of major electrical subsystems 
• Deep expertise in analog and digital circuit design, power electronics, and PCB layout, with the ability to set technical direction for the team 
• Experience balancing speed of development with establishing engineering processes such as design reviews, test specifications, and DFM checkpoints 
• Ability to recruit, develop, and mentor electrical engineers while maintaining hands-on involvement in critical design work 
• Previous successful partnerships with mechanical, software, and product teams via excellent cross-functional communication skills
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to safety-critical or medical-adjacent products (e.g., UL, EMC, IEC standards)

How We Hire

1. Recruiter Screen: (30 min) 
2. Hiring Manager Interview (60 min)
3. Embedded Technical Interview: (60 min) 
4. Leadership Interview: (60 min)

What We Offer

• Early-stage equity in automated pharmacy dispensing at scale
• Direct impact — your code dispenses medication to real patients
• Small team, zero bureaucracy, high trust
• Hard problems: distributed systems, safety-critical software, regulatory compliance, real-time hardware integration

Compensations & Benefits

• Competitive salary 
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Health, 401(k)

Why Join Us Now?

Impact & Growth

• Direct Patient Impact: Your code 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
• 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
• 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 your output. We live and die by what you do — own it fully
• Default is Now – There's no 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 careers@robotrx.ai

POSITION: Senior Edge & Linux Platform Engineer (Rust, Linux)

LOCATION: Newark, CA (Hybrid)

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: FTE

REPORTING STRUCTURE: VP of Software Engineering 

About Us

The American pharmacy system currently struggles to meet patient needs. Long wait times, overworked staff, and outdated infrastructure have compromised reliable access to essential medications.

We are addressing these challenges today. We are a stealth-mode physical AI company working on a robotic pharmacy product. We are not just conceptualizing the pharmacy of the future; we are building it now.

About the Role

This is a high-leverage role with end-to-end ownership. You own the software that runs *inside* the robot — the edge agent that orchestrates every dispense, the Linux platform it runs on, and the peripheral integrations that connect compute to the physical machine.

The edge agent is the glue. It takes a prescription, sequences motion through real-time controllers, verifies the dispense with vision, prints the label, talks to the cloud, and writes a tamper-evident audit trail of every action. When something goes wrong on the robot, this is the process that decides whether to stop, retry, or page a human. Getting it right is non-negotiable.

You set the standard for how device software is built, hardened, signed, shipped, and updated in the field. As we scale from 5 robots to a fleet, the platform you build is what makes that scale safe.

You'll work closely with the electrical and firmware engineers on the motor and sensor side, the platform engineer on the cloud side. You own your domain end to end.

What You'll Own

• Edge agent (`edge-agent`) — prescription lifecycle on the robot, device and fill state machines, orchestration of motors, vision, buttons, label printing, and console capture
• Linux platform — minimal, hardened, immutable OS images for the in-robot compute (industrial x86) and the NVIDIA Jetson Thor vision module; kernel configuration, boot, init, packaging
• Secure boot and update path — signed boot chain, dm-verity, A/B partition updates, rollback on failure, key management
• Peripheral integration — CAN, USB, Serial, and Ethernet/TCP-IP links to motor controllers, sensors, button boards, label printers, and cameras
• OTA and fleet update tooling — how a new edge agent or kernel reaches the fleet safely, atomically, and with a verifiable audit trail
• Device telemetry and observability — structured health, metrics, logs, and crash artifacts that make a robot in the field debuggable from the cloud
• Cloud seam - the MQTT/AWS IoT Core boundary that the platform team owns on the other side; you own the device-side contract, codecs, store-and-forward, and reconnect semantics
• Engineering standards - code review, testing patterns, and conventions for everything that ships to the device

Required Qualifications

Must-Haves

• Embedded Linux mastery — You've cut your own distributions. Yocto/Buildroot, kernel configuration, init systems, root filesystem composition, package management. You know what's in a minimal image and what isn't, and why.
• Hardened device platforms — Secure boot, signed kernels and images, dm-verity (or equivalent integrity), A/B partition updates with verified rollback, key and certificate management on device. You've shipped this, not just read the whitepaper.
• Rust on embedded Linux — You've shipped Rust to production on resource-constrained Linux targets. async/Tokio, error handling patterns, type-driven design, cross-compilation, packaging.
• Real-time orchestration and state machines — You've built systems where multiple subsystems (motion, vision, IO) must be sequenced correctly, where partial failure is the norm, and where the wrong state transition is a safety event. Event-driven FSMs are second nature.
• Hardware integration over standard buses — CAN, USB, Serial (UART/RS-485), and Ethernet/TCP-IP. You've debugged a flaky link with a logic analyzer or `candump`, not just a print statement.
• Industrial-grade x86 and ARM compute — You've shipped on at least one industrial SBC or embedded x86 platform and at least one ARM Linux target. You understand the difference between a dev board and a unit that has to run in a pharmacy for five years.
• ARM Cortex MCUs, bare metal and RTOS literacy — You don't have to write the motor firmware, but you have to integrate with engineers who do. You understand bare-metal and RTOS execution models, interrupt latency, and the contracts an MCU exposes to a Linux host.
• Connected device fleets — You've operated devices in the field. OTA updates, telemetry, remote diagnostics, crash collection, recovery from a bricked unit at the other end of a flaky network.
• Safety-critical mindset — You design the failure path first. The happy path is just "recovery wasn't needed." Fail-closed by default; on any uncertainty, the robot refuses to dispense.
• Technical leadership — You've raised the bar on a team. Through code review, architecture decisions, mentorship, or establishing conventions that stuck. You don't need a title to lead.

Important

• NVIDIA Jetson — Thor, Orin, or earlier. Custom L4T images, non-default rootfs bringup, signed boot and update integration.
• Linux kernel debugging — ftrace, perf, eBPF, device tree edits. You find the cause of a kernel oops, not just collect the trace.
• MQTT / AWS IoT Core — Device-side ownership: adapter, store-and-forward, mTLS, reconnect, back-pressure. Cloud team owns the rest.
• Debian packaging — cargo-deb or hand-rolled, with systemd units, postinst hooks, and clean upgrades.
• Supply chain hygiene — cargo deny, signed artifacts, reproducible builds, SBOMs.
• Fault-injection testing — You test invariants under stress, not just examples on the happy path.

Nice-to-Haves

• Healthcare or regulated industry experience (HIPAA, FDA, DEA)
• Functional safety background (IEC 61508, ISO 13849, or equivalent)
• TPM / secure-element integration, key provisioning at manufacturing
• PREEMPT_RT or other real-time Linux experience
• Prior work on robotics, dispensing, or other physical-AI systems
• SQLite, protobuf

How We Hire

Four steps. Tight loop - Thats All! 

1. Recruiter Screen: (30 min) — Motivation, logistics, and whether you naturally think in terms of correctness and ownership. 
2. Technical Interview: (90 min) — You receive a broken infrastructure setup 24 hours before. We discuss your debugging approach, fix and improve together, and talk through operational thinking. 
3. Design Interview: (60 min) — We go deeper on the same exercise. How would you deploy to a fleet of pharmacy robots? What's your staged rollout strategy? What breaks and how do you know? 
4. Leadership Interview: (60 min) — Culture, vision, long-term fit. 

The technical and design interviews are two sides of the same coin — first you build it, then we pressure-test the thinking behind it. 

What We Offer

• Early-stage equity in automated pharmacy dispensing at scale
• Direct impact — your code dispenses medication to real patients
• Small team, zero bureaucracy, high trust
• Hard problems: distributed systems, safety-critical software, regulatory compliance, real-time hardware integration

Compensations & Benefits

• Competitive salary 
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Health, 401(k)

Why Join Us Now?

Impact & Growth

• Direct Patient Impact: Your code 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
• 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
• 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 your output. We live and die by what you do — own it fully
• Default is Now – There's no 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 careers@robotrx.ai

POSITION: Senior / Staff Mechanical Engineer

LOCATION: Newark, CA (Hybrid)

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: FTE

REPORTING STRUCTURE: Head of Mechanical Engineering

About Us

The American pharmacy system currently struggles to meet patient needs. Long wait times, overworked staff, and outdated infrastructure have compromised reliable access to essential medications.

We are addressing these challenges today. We are a stealth-mode physical AI company working on a robotic pharmacy product. We are not just conceptualizing the pharmacy of the future; we are building it now.

About the Role

As Senior/Staff Engineer, you'll architect and lead the mechanical design and manufacturing strategy of critical system(s). This isn't just another mechanical engineering role, you'll be building complex electromechanical systems that handle medications with pharmaceutical-grade precision, designing for both high and low volume production, and scaling a patent-pending robotics platform from prototype to nationwide deployment in the tens of thousands of units. 

What makes this role extraordinary:

Direct impact on millions of patients through breakthrough pharmacy automation with the opportunity to design complex mechanisms from the ground up and scale to production while working at the intersection of precision robotics, computer vision, and healthcare automation.

Complex Electromechanical Systems

• Design sophisticated mechanisms for high-speed, high-accuracy medication dispensing
• Develop systems capable of managing hundreds of different medications
• Create pharmaceutical-grade precision systems that operate reliably 24/7 
• Engineer solutions enable prescriptions fill as faster as going to an ATM

Design for Scale and Production

• Lead Design for X (DFx) strategy for low- and high-volume production methods.
• Drive the transition from prototypes to production-ready systems, scaling to over 4,000 units annually.
• Establish supplier and manufacturing partnerships for complex components and assemblies.
• Implement cost-reduction initiatives and create comprehensive build-to-print documentation for repeatable, cost-effective production at scale.

Ground-Up Product Development

• Own mechanical architecture from initial concept through production release while balancing innovation with practical manufacturability
• Design systems for serviceability, reliability, and maintainability in field deployment
• Integrate mechanical systems seamlessly with robotics, computer vision, AI, and compute
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations and pharmaceutical handling requirements

Test, Validation & Quality

• Lead design verification and validation (DVT) activities; establishing comprehensive test and validation protocols for mission-critical healthcare systems
• Implement reliability testing programs to ensure 99.99%+ uptime in pharmacy environments
• Create failure mode analysis (FMEA) and risk mitigation strategies
• Drive continuous improvement through field data analysis and iterative design refinement

Required Qualifications and Experiences

We don’t care about your degrees. We care about what you can show us! Send us your portfolios and examples of work and projects. 

• Ground-Up Builder experience, owning products from concept through production, design, test, and deployment.
• 8+ Years of hands-on mechanical/mechatronic engineering experience.
• Production Expertise: Deep expertise in DFM, high/low volume manufacturing, and scaling products from prototype to production.
• Complex Mechanisms: Demonstrated expertise designing sophisticated mechanical systems with tight tolerances and high reliability.
• Electromechanical Integration: Experience integrating mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
• Manufacturing & Documentation: Deep knowledge of diverse manufacturing methods (machining, molding, casting) and proven ability to create comprehensive build-to-print documentation for contract manufacturers.
• CAD Expertise: Advanced proficiency in 3D CAD platforms (OnShape, SolidWorks, Creo) with mastery of master modeling techniques.

How We Hire

1. Recruiter Screen: (30 min) 
2. Hiring Manager Interview (60 min)
3. Embedded Technical Interview: (60 min) 
4. Leadership Interview: (60 min)

What We Offer

• Early-stage equity in automated pharmacy dispensing at scale
• Direct impact — your code dispenses medication to real patients
• Small team, zero bureaucracy, high trust
• Hard problems: distributed systems, safety-critical software, regulatory compliance, real-time hardware integration

Compensations & Benefits

• Competitive salary 
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Health, 401(k)

Why Join Us Now?

Impact & Growth

• Direct Patient Impact: Your code 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
• 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
• 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 your output. We live and die by what you do — own it fully
• Default is Now – There's no 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 careers@robotrx.ai

About Rmix:

The American pharmacy system is broken. Long queues, overworked staff, and crumbling infrastructure leave millions struggling to access essential medication. As pharmacies close and the pharmacist shortage worsens, patients deserve something better.

Rmix was founded to solve it.

We deploy advanced pharmacy robotics that operate 24/7 with sub-30-second precision; automating dispensing with a tamper-evident audit trail so pharmacists can focus on what matters: patient care.

Backed by entrepreneurs with nine-figure exits, we're a Physical AI company targeting a $50B market. In 2026, we're scaling across national chains to prove that AI and next-gen robotics can transform healthcare delivery.

About the Role:

This is a foundational hire. You own the infrastructure that a pharmacy robot fleet runs on — and you set the standard for how infrastructure is built. Engineers write application code; you make sure it deploys reliably, scales correctly, stays secure, and is observable in production.

You don't write dispense logic. You own the platform it runs on: Terraform, CI/CD, deployment automation, security scanning, observability, certificate management, and the production environment that must pass a mandated penetration test. You write code to solve infrastructure problems, not just configure tools.

What You'll Own:

• Infrastructure as code — Terraform modules, multi-environment strategy (dev, staging, production), production hardening
• CI/CD — Build, test, scan, and deploy pipelines for Rust and TypeScript services
• Deployment automation — Reliable deploys in minutes. Docker builds. Blue/green or rolling deployments.
• Observability — Dashboards, alerting, structured logging, health endpoints, SLO monitoring
• Security — Dependency auditing, vulnerability scanning, secret detection, image scanning, certificate management (X.509, mTLS)
• Device updates — OTA software update pipeline with staged rollout across pharmacy locations
• Cost management — Right-sizing, budget alerts, utilization targets

First 90 Days:

Day 30: Understand the existing infrastructure. Deploys are reliable. Security scanning enabled in CI. First monitoring dashboard operational.

Day 60: Security hardening complete. CI/CD extended with full scanning. Alerting configured with escalation paths. Cost assessment delivered.

Day 90: Production environment ready for pilot. Pen test prep done. OTA pipeline prototyped. Every service has a health dashboard, alerts, and a runbook.

Required Qualifications and Experiences:

• 3+ years Terraform / IaC - Production modules, state management, multi-environment promotion
• AWS deep — VPC, ECS, RDS, IAM, KMS, SQS, CloudWatch. You understand the security model
• CI/CD — GitHub Actions or equivalent. Pipeline-as-code, caching, deployment gates
• Docker — Multi-stage builds, image optimization, production deployment
• Linux — System administration, troubleshooting, performance analysis

Nice-to-Haves:

• Rust toolchain (cargo, clippy, cross-compilation)
• IoT fleet management or device provisioning at scale
• AWS cost optimization
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience

How We Hire:

Four steps. Tight loop - That's All!

1. Recruiter Screen: (30 min) — Motivation, logistics, and whether you naturally think in terms of correctness and ownership.
2. Technical Interview: (90 min) — You receive a broken infrastructure setup 24 hours before. We discuss your debugging approach, fix and improve together, and talk through operational thinking.
3. Design Interview: (60 min) — We go deeper on the same exercise. How would you deploy to a fleet of pharmacy robots? What's your staged rollout strategy? What breaks and how do you know?
4. Leadership Interview: (60 min) — Culture, vision, long-term fit.

The technical and design interviews are two sides of the same coin — first you build it, then we pressure-test the thinking behind it.

What We Offer:

• Early-stage equity in automated pharmacy dispensing at scale
• Direct impact — your code dispenses medication to real patients
• Small team, zero bureaucracy, high trust
• Work directly with a CTO from Tesla, Waymo, and Zipline
• Hard problems: distributed systems, safety-critical software, regulatory compliance, real-time hardware integration

Compensations & Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Health, dental, vision, 401(k)

Why Join Us Now?

Impact & Growth:

• Direct Patient Impact: Your code 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
• Direct Access: Report directly to the CTO/Co-founder 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.
• 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 your output. Rmix lives and dies by what you do — own it fully.
• Default is Now – There's no 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 careers@robotrx.ai