Overview

We’re seeking a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to join our NYC-based team and help lead the development of our robot and the tools it uses in real customer warehouses. 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.

Who You Are

• You are a mechatronics Swiss army knife, capable of working on every part of the hardware stack for our robotic systems, and have multiple years of experience working in robotics.
• You have a long history of designing ingenious devices using a wide variety of mechanical and electrical approaches.
• You enjoy thinking about electrical and mechanical design, studying how things work, and using that knowledge to solve complex problems elegantly.
• You thrive in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. You don’t need to be micromanaged because you are used to working backwards from customer needs and focusing on the most valuable work.
• You are hungry for impact and personal growth. Your dream job is an opportunity to work hard with a team of like-minded engineers building the future of robotics.

What You’ll Do

• Completely own the design and deployment of new robot tooling and end effectors that expand our capabilities and solve real customer problems.
• Lead rapid design loops to ship improvements fast — prototype, validate on the robots in the lab, learn, and refine.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for tools and peripherals, selecting off-the-shelf components when smart and developing custom parts when it creates strategic advantage.
• Work closely with vendors to spec and source components and help us build a scalable supply chain.
• Work hands-on with the broader engineering team to make your work compatible with our autonomy stack and ready to scale with our robot platform.

Experience and Skills

• The full mechatronics stack:
  • 3D design, rapid prototyping, and design for manufacturing
  • Mechanical and electrical assembly - from machine tools, to soldering, to debugging electrical
  • Sourcing and testing components such as motors, cameras, and raw materials
  • Tying designs together with code
• Communication: good with customers and vendors alike. You know how to build relationships across the board and maintain them while helping us achieve our goals.
• Great at research, pulling all of your knowledge and connections together to help us find and compare the best components for the product we are building
• Comfortable with travel to customer and supplier sites both within the US as well as to foreign countries including China, Mexico, and the EU.

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.