Electrical Engineering Lead

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 Long wait times, overworked staff, and outdated infrastructure have compromised reliable access to essential medications.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