Overview

Matic is bringing families out of the stone age of remarkably dumb disc home robots. Humanity spends ~2.5 trillion hours annually on home chores, worth $25 trillion in wasted economic value. We are on a mission to recapture this time and value with fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall-E-esque home robots that families love and cannot fathom their lives without. 

Our approach
In 2017, we observed 200+ self-driving car startups and an equal number of industrial robotics startups, but the home autonomy and robotics space had been dramatically overlooked. While AI is becoming more ubiquitous, families are still stuck spending dozens of hours per week on repetitive household chores.

At Matic, we're leveraging advanced technology to address this problem. We've started by reimagining our first product in fully autonomous floor-cleaning robots. Just like consumers adopted Cell Phones, then PDAs, then iPods and Blackberries before adopting the iPhone to replace all, we believe that consumers will adopt single-purpose, elegant, and affordable robots that belong and become part of their homes first before we get one-robot-to-rule all chores.

Our goal is to continue automating other forms of household labor, shipping useful, affordable, and privacy-first robots to our users that solve real problems while building iteratively toward more complex tasks and capabilities over time.

Privacy first

Our robots are also private by design, with all the computes on the edge device. We believe that families shouldn't have to jeopardize their privacy just to get some help with the constant drudgery of home chores.

Who we are
We are a consumer robotics product company solving real customer problems. We start with a problem, think of an elegant solution in the form of robots, and conduct necessary research to build products that just work. We believe families want solutions to their problems, and AI & robots enable us to solve them.

Who we are NOT
We are NOT a Robotics Foundation Model research lab, a humanoid builder, or a robotics software platform company. We build fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall-E-esque robotic products that kids, pets, and families love!

About the role

Responsible for leading the development and implementation of advanced predictive models, innovative testing systems, and Design for Reliability (DfR) frameworks for robotic systems. This role focuses on optimizing reliability tests, reducing test durations/samples through unique statistical and Physics-of-Failure (PoF) driven methodologies, and providing critical insights into failure prediction and prevention strategies, ultimately ensuring the unparalleled reliability of Matic's cutting-edge robotic technologies.

Specific duties include:

• As the team's first reliability engineer, you will be responsible for implementing all the reliability requirements across different subsystems.

• Work with design engineers to understand the physics of failure and apply them to designing accelerated test methods to represent field behaviors.

• Design and build test setups for different loading scenarios – fatigue, vibration and shock, temperature, and humidity, etc.

• Perform root cause failure analysis at different stages of testing.

• Prepare concise and detailed test plans, analyze test reports, and present results to all relevant stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field and five years of progressive, post-bachelor’s experience.

Experience must include:

• Use of Design for Reliability or Design of Experiments, and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).

• Development of Physics of Failure (PoF) based modeling.

• Management or execution of reliability tests, such as accelerated Life Test (ALT), Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT), Environmental Stress Screening, etc.

• Reliability analysis and reliability system modeling.

• Reliability test plans creation/development.

Our team

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 our precious time and energy.

At Matic, we're eager to take risks and test convention. We love diving headfirst into hard problems — even if it means some failures along the way. We work smart, hard, and long (in that order), chasing innovation and human impact. We highly value individual ownership and take meticulous pride in the work we do, knowing our efforts affect both one another and our customers.

Those who value curiosity and learning and who don’t shy away from hard problems thrive at Matic. If you are genuinely committed to innovation and improving the lives of others, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply

If you're feeling excited about this opportunity at Matic, then apply, even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement. We're eager to meet people who are keen to learn and are passionate about what Matic is building. We want to hear how you can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just the above boxes.