Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer

queueinc; Newark (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early-stage equity

Health benefits

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Queue is seeking a Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer to own end‑to‑end electrical subsystem design for its autonomous robotic pharmacy system. You will drive from requirements through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring‑up, shaping hardware architecture and engineering standards in a regulated environment.

You will collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams, apply DFM/DFT, and address signal integrity, thermal, and EMC challenges to deliver production‑ready designs with

Qualifications

• Own the end-to-end design of electrical subsystems for a robotic pharmacy system.
• Develop schematics, layouts, BOMs and drive production bring-up with rigorous documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of electrical subsystem design from requirements through production bring‑up.
• Create and maintain schematics, PCB layouts, and BOMs with standardized documentation.
• Evaluate and qualify sensors, actuators, and power components for regulated pharma use.
• Define and execute testing specs across subsystems; document findings and lessons learned.
• Investigate hardware issues across prototyping and production, including signal integrity, thermal, EMC.

Skills

Electrical subsystem design

Altium KiCad

Power electronics

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Testing and validation

EMC understanding

Regulatory awareness

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

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 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), unlimited PTO

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.
• 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 [e-mail]