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# Reliability Design Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics at Matic

- **Company:** Matic
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MaticRobots/1858e85e-c3be-4d05-9a43-083a84ba3255/application

**Skills:** CAD, Python, Electromechanical systems, Actuators, Motor control, Sensors, Data acquisition, Instrumentation, Circuit work, Hardware design engineering, Accelerated testing, Fatigue testing, Life testing, Design of Experiments (DOE), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

> Design, fabricate, and automate electromechanical test rigs and fixtures to predict and prevent hardware failures in home robotics. The role involves building accelerated life, fatigue, and environmental tests, integrating sensors and data acquisition, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to validate produc...

## Job description

## COMPANY OVERVIEW

Each year, 2.5 trillion hours are spent on household chores. At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics.

Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to "full self-driving in the home” with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on-device.

## PRIVACY FIRST

What happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.

## OUR APPROACH

Before the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. We believe in a similar progression for home robotics, starting with single-purpose robots and building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.

## OUR CULTURE

Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Reliability Design Engineer, you will build the test infrastructure that lets us predict and prevent failures in the lab, before our robots ever reach a customer’s home. The mission is simple to state and hard to do: catch it here, not in the field. You will work closely with our mechanical design engineers, electrical design engineers, quality engineers, production engineers, and supply chain teams to make sure we are doing everything possible to fully test and validate every feature before we ship it.

This means pushing our designs to the extreme and building in real design margin, so that when people start depending on these robots for their daily chores and work, the robots don’t fail them. That is how we fulfill our promise of a world-class home robot people genuinely love. Your work is the difference between a customer who trusts their robot and one who doesn’t.

This is a hands-on hardware role for an engineer who likes building things that break other things. You will design, fabricate, instrument, and run the rigs, fixtures, and accelerated torture tests that reproduce real-world failure modes, push our designs past their limits, and tell us exactly where and why things break. You will model a rig in CAD, wire up the motor drivers and sensors that bring it to life, stand up the data acquisition that captures clean failure data, and write the scripts that automate it all. And you’ll do it at serious scale: we are ramping from thousands of robots today toward hundreds of thousands a year, across a fast-moving lineup of hardware versions, which means the test systems you build have to be as robust, repeatable, and scalable as the products they protect. If you want to design clever electromechanical apparatus, get your hands dirty, and have a direct line of sight from your work to a more reliable product in someone’s home, this role is for you.

## What you’ll do

- Design, fabricate, and iterate electromechanical test rigs, fixtures, and automated setups that reproduce field failure modes and stress our designs to failure
- Build accelerated life, fatigue, vibration and shock, and temperature and humidity tests across motors, mechanisms, and electronics
- Wire up and integrate the actuators, motor drivers, sensors, and data acquisition that bring each test setup to life and capture clean, analyzable failure data
- Write scripts to automate test execution and data logging so tests run reliably and repeatably at volume
- Partner with reliability engineers to translate physics of failure and field insight into representative test methods
- Support root cause failure analysis by designing the apparatus and experiments that isolate failure mechanisms
- Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, and documentation for all test equipment
- Scale and maintain the reliability lab as our fleet, hardware versions, and test volume grow
- Work cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, software, quality, production, and supply chain teams to close the loop from potential failure to design fix

## WHAT WE LOOK FOR

- Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline
- 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience, ideally on a physical product that has shipped in volume
- Proven ability to build, fabricate, and rapidly iterate physical prototypes and test setups
- Proficiency in CAD
- Hands-on comfort across electromechanical systems: actuators, motor control, sensors, and basic circuit work, data acquisition, and instrumentation
- Working proficiency with a scripting language such as Python for test automation and data handling
- Exposure to reliability and test concepts such as accelerated testing, fatigue, life testing, DOE, or FMEA is a plus
- Comfort with a fast-paced, startup atmosphere where you take ownership of ambiguous problems
- High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work

WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF...

- You are genuinely motivated to help those around you
- You are passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
- You love diagnosing complex technical issues
- You are excited to do great work

## COMPENSATION:

Base: $120,000 - $200,000 per annum.

Actual Compensation will depend on skills, experience and qualifications. Base Salary is one part of the total compensation package. The role is also eligible for equity through the company’s discretionary equity program, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage access to a 401(k) plan.

## About Matic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Matic builds a fully autonomous, AI-powered floor-cleaning robot that uses photorealistic 3D vision to vacuum and mop homes with zero human intervention.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $112.5M total funding; latest round: Venture Round in September 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Mehul Nariyawala (co-founder) and another co-founder (name not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / Consumer Home Robotics
- **Target customers**: B2C – homeowners seeking a premium, hands-free floor-cleaning solution
- **Mission / Purpose**: "Reimagining the next generation of fully autonomous, helpful, and elegant home robots using AI and computer vision" – aiming for Level-5 autonomy in the home.

## Products & Services
- **Matic Robot**: A floor-cleaning robot that combines vacuuming and mopping in one device. Key features include:
  - Continual photorealistic 3D mapping for precise navigation
  - Zero-stuck obstacle avoidance (detects wires and obstacles >1 inch)
  - Works on all home surfaces, including shag rugs
  - Auto-toggles between mopping and vacuuming
  - Quiet enough for work or nap time
  - In-app scheduling, spot-cleaning, and room prioritization
  - Secure, on-device vision processing (no cloud dependency)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$112.5M** across 3 rounds (Seed 2019: $5.6M led by Matt Rogers; Series A 2023: $24M; Venture Round 2025: $77.3M)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Matt Rogers (seed lead); other investors include a mix of venture firms (exact names not publicly detailed in available sources)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **115% YoY** to 146 employees (as of mid-2026)
  - Website traffic up **195% YoY** (61,992 monthly visits)
  - 23 active job postings (up 109% YoY)
  - Strong talent pipeline from Tesla, Apple, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon

## Competitive Advantages
- **True visual perception**: Matic uses photorealistic 3D mapping and computer vision to understand the home like a human, unlike competitors that rely on simpler sensors.
- **Zero-stuck, proactive cleaning**: The robot continuously maps and detects obstacles in real time, avoiding common failure modes of other robots.
- **Quiet operation**: Designed to be unobtrusive during work or sleep.
- **All-surface capability**: Handles both hard floors and carpets (including shag) without manual switching.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling manufacturing and engineering to meet demand (active hiring in hardware, firmware, software, and quality roles)
- Expanding autonomy capabilities (Level-5 goal) and refining the consumer experience
- Building a strong in-office engineering team in Mountain View

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Tight-knit, collaborative, and ultra-hardworking team focused on product excellence. Employer rating of **4.5/5** (34 reviews) on LinkedIn, with high marks for culture (4.5) and career growth (4.2).
- **Work Policy**: **In-office** (Mountain View, CA). Employees work from physical offices; typical time on-site is full-time.
- **Perks & Benefits** (per Built In and LinkedIn):
  - Competitive compensation and company equity
  - 401(k) retirement plan
  - Generous PTO and paid parental leave
  - Health, dental, and vision insurance
  - Family medical leave
- **Engineering Culture**: 45% of staff in technical roles; heavy concentration of talent from top robotics and tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Stanford, CMU). Active research and development in AI, computer vision, and embedded systems.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling company (115% headcount growth) with 23 open positions across engineering, manufacturing, and design – offering significant impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [maticrobots.com](https://maticrobots.com/)
2. [maticrobots.com/careers](https://maticrobots.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/maticrobots](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maticrobots)
4. [builtin.com/company/matic-robots](https://builtin.com/company/matic-robots)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/maticrobots](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Maticrobots)

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