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

- **Company:** Matic
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-05-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MaticRobots/76c07009-73b5-43e3-affb-d4fc20b9fe49

## 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 Robotics Reliability Engineer, you own reliability across our subsystems, especially motors, mechanisms, and electronics, from the drawing board all the way into customers’ homes. The role has two halves, and you live in both.

Before launch, you are our design-for-reliability conscience. You partner with design engineers to predict how a part or subsystem could fail, run DFMEA to map those failure modes, and define how we prove them out: which tests, accelerated how, for how long, and with how many samples. You set the reliability targets and the plan to hit them, so problems get caught on the bench instead of in someone’s living room.

After launch, once robots are in real homes, the real data starts coming from every direction: support tickets, customers posting when something breaks, robots sent back for repair, and the motor and sensor telemetry customers consent to share. A robot returned for one problem is often broken in five other ways the customer never noticed, so you tear it down and find all of them. Your job is to see every way a robot is failing or could fail, keep track of all of it, and turn that signal into action: new tests and test setups where we need them, and clear input on which failure modes are under-prioritized and need engineering bandwidth.

## What you’ll do

- Partner with design engineers to understand the physics of failure and design accelerated test methods that represent real field behavior
- Run DFMEA and set reliability targets early, predicting failure modes before launch and specifying the tests, sample sizes, durations, and acceleration factors needed to prove the design out
- Collaborate with our reliability design engineers to design and build test setups for different loading scenarios such as fatigue, vibration and shock, and temperature and humidity
- Monitor every way our robots fail in the field, across support tickets, social media, returns, and telemetry, and tear down returned units to find failures the customer never reported
- Own and track the full catalog of field and potential failure modes across the fleet, and drive each one to resolution through either testing or a design change
- Build and own the analytics on motor and sensor telemetry that surface where features and parts are failing at scale
- Perform root cause failure analysis at every stage, from early bench testing through field returns
- Prepare concise and detailed test plans, drive test execution, analyze test reports, and present results to all relevant stakeholders
- Influence design direction and prioritization by flagging which failure modes are under-prioritized and where design bandwidth should go
- Strengthen DFR practices while acting in a cross-disciplinary fashion spanning mechanical, electrical, and software engineering

## What we look for

- Technical degree in mechanical engineering, materials science, or equivalent, with 2-5 years of experience in a reliability engineering position. An advanced degree in reliability, materials science, or a related field is a strong plus
- Track record of defining reliability targets and test plans for consumer electronic products
- Deep comfort with reliability statistics: life data analysis, Weibull++ or equivalent, and a range of accelerated test models
- Solid understanding of Design of Experiments (DOE), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA and DFMEA), and physics of failure
- Experience specifying test setups for reliability testing and partnering with others to build them
- Comfort analyzing messy, multi-source field data such as support tickets, returns, and telemetry, and turning it into clear engineering priorities
- Comfort with fast-paced, startup atmosphere — you don’t shy away from the hard work
- 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: $130,000 - $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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