Systems Engineer

Robot RX
Newark, CA, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Systems Engineering Embedded Software Failure Mode Effects Analysis Design of User Interfaces Data Driven Tests Software Requirements Analysis Software Systems Systems Architecture Systems Integration Model-Driven Development Data Analytics

Job description

You’ll architect a mission-critical autonomous robotic system and drive decisions at the intersection of hardware, software, business and customer needs. You’ll guide cross-function teams through a systems lens - using rigorous, data-driven analysis to sharpen execution. Together, we’ll scale our robots to high-volume production and bring reliable pharmacy automation to patients nationwide.

What You Bring:

  • System Architecture & Technical Leadership:
  • Own the end-to-end architecture, defining requirements, interfaces, and performance budgets
  • Act as the technical integrator across hardware, software, controls, manufacturing, and operations
  • Resolve ambiguity through structured analysis and clear decision making
  • Balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and customer/unit-economic constraints
  • Model-Driven Tradeoffs:
  • Build and maintain system-level models for performance, throughput, reliability and cost.
  • Apply first-principles reasoning, simulation, and quantitative trade studies to architectural decisions
  • Update assumptions and margins as manufacturing and field data come in.
  • Scale, Verification & Reliability
  • Architect for high-volume manufacturing and nationwide deployment, driving system-level DFM/DFA.
  • Design for variability, serviceability, logistics, and field reliability
  • Define V&V strategy, lead integration, bring-up, FMEA, and root-cause analysis
  • Hold the bar for safety, uptime, and real-world robustness.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Systems integration?, * 6+ years of engineering experience on complex products, with a track record of shipping systems that carry real operational and economic consequences. Direct robotics experience is not required - we welcome candidates from adjacent complex-systems domains (e.g., aerospace, automotive, medical devices, industrial automation)

  • Deep expertise in system architecture, design trades, requirements definition, and interface design
  • Experience planning and executing V&V campaigns for complex systems
  • Fluency across hardware, software, controls, and operations, with deep knowledge in one or more of: electronics, embedded software, distributed software, mechatronics, or mechanical systems
  • Ability to reason rigorously about cost, scaling, and unit economics
  • First-principles thinker who is data-driven, decisive under uncertainty, and operates with high ownership and low ego

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in safety or mission critical industries
  • Experience working directly with customers or regulators during development and delivery
  • Hands-on experience testing complex electromechanical and software systems in the lab or in the field
  • Hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience owning regulatory compliance activities (e.g., IEC, UL, FCC)

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • 401(k)
  • Unlimited paid time off, * Servant Leadership - Make those around you better. Like Rmix serves communities, we serve our teams. 4,000 pharmacies close annually - we’re here to reverse that.
  • 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?

How We Hire

  • Recruiter Screen: (30 min)
  • Hiring Manager Interview (60 min)
  • Embedded Technical Interview: (60 min)
  • 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: 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

About the company

Having raised a fresh new over-subscribed round of venture capital, our team is looking to grow its world class team of engineers.

We are transforming an age old industry with intelligent robotics that can be deployed in less than a day. We replace infrastructure they takes many months to build and many people to sustain. We eliminate all that.

We have already won the largest national customer in this multi-billion dollar industry. Come interview with us to see what we are doing, who you will work with and see why this might be the place for you.

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