Mechanical Engineer

queueinc•Newark, CA

33d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
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
You can explain why you chose a material, a mechanism, or a tolerance, and what you traded away to get it
Comfortable in a shop with 3D printers, hand tools, and basic machining. You debug with a caliper and a multimeter, not just a screen
Solid part and assembly modeling in a 3D CAD platform (OnShape, SolidWorks, Creo), and drawings clear enough to build from
You finish what you start, say what you don’t know, and learn fast from feedback

Nice To Haves

Mechanisms with moving parts: linkages, cams, gear trains, linear stages, grippers, dispensers
Mechatronics basics: motors, sensors, and a microcontroller you wired and programmed yourself
Tolerance analysis and GD&T on parts that had to fit and function
Exposure to manufacturing methods such as machining, injection molding, sheet metal, or casting
Python or MATLAB for test data and quick calculations
Simulation (FEA) used to check a hand calculation, not replace it

Responsibilities

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