Senior / Staff Mechanical Engineer

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 Long wait times, overworked staff, and outdated infrastructure have compromised reliable access to essential medications.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

• 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

• 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

   

Contact: If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]