Overview

We're seeking a Lead VR Developer to join our NYC-based team (we are an in-person company) to own our VR teleoperation stack. Teleoperation is key to our automation strategy, and improvements to the tools we give to our operators will unlock new tasks and improve data quality drastically. We are an early stage company moving very fast in a rapidly growing space, and welcome people from any background as long as you're excited to join our mission, drive immediate impact, and create a future where automation is accessible to all.

What You'll Do

• Own the application, deployment infrastructure and development toolchain around our VR stack (built with Unity, running on the Meta Quest 3)
• Invent, evaluate, and build UX improvements to make remote teleoperation feel as natural as working with your hands
• Optimize application performance around resource-intensive tasks like WebRTC video streaming, rendering, and body tracking
• Build an application with strong opinions and patterns that non-VR devs can follow to make helpful functionality changes. We want the whole team to be able to push things forward while maintaining overall quality.

Who You Are

• You have worked on a single VR project for at least a year, and have employed successful maintenance and release strategies
• You have a strong understanding of ergonomic VR environments with the goal of minimizing operator fatigue
• You have ideas for how to make remote teleoperation with a robot feel like being there in person
• You have worked with video streaming, body tracking, and two-way video/voice conferencing
• You're hungry for impact and personal growth, and like to have fun in the pursuit

Bonus Points

• Experience working on VR teleoperation applications
• Familiarity with video codecs, WebRTC, and low-latency VR applications (like gaming)
• Experience working with hardware systems in a production environment

About Ultra

Ultra builds AI-native industrial robots that actually work in the real world. Our systems automate mission-critical warehouse labor end-to-end, starting with e-commerce order packaging. We deploy fast, learn from real production data, and iterate aggressively. We already have multiple revenue-generating robots operating in U.S. warehouses, and are now scaling toward hundreds of deployments over the next couple years. Our goal is simple: build the most advanced, most productive industrial AI robots on the planet.