Robotics Application Engineer - Hardware

Ultra; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultra in NYC is seeking a Robotics Application Engineer to bridge sales and field support, owning the journey from close to live deployment in customer warehouses.

You will design and test robotic solutions in our lab, reconstruct environments, prototype with a mechatronics toolbox, and hand off a production-ready deployment to the field team with complete documentation.

Qualifications

• Engineering foundation with ability to engage customers and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to design, test, and iterate mechanical/electrical/software systems in a lab setting.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical journey from sale close to live deployment in a customer warehouse.
• Reconstruct customer environments in lab and validate deployment readiness.
• Design, build, and test solutions using mechatronics toolbox and prototyping.
• Collaborate with robot pilots to prototype, time studies, and capture performance data.
• Deliver a production-ready deployment package to the field team with clear documentation.

Skills

Customer-facing

Systems thinking

Mechatronics

Lab testing

Tools

Python

Linux

3D printing

Job description

Overview

We're seeking a Robotics Application Engineer to join our NYC-based team and own the technical journey from the moment a sale closes to the moment a robot goes live in a customer warehouse. You'll be the bridge between our sales and our field support team — gathering requirements, designing and building solutions in our lab to confirm deployment readiness, and handing off a production-ready deployment to our field team.

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 have a strong foundation in engineering, but also genuinely enjoy working with customers. You get energy from both a great customer conversation and a productive session designing and testing engineering solutions in the lab.
• You're organized and dependable to a fault. You own your timelines, communicate proactively, and the people counting on you always know where things stand.
• You have a knack for understanding how complex systems work — mechanical, electrical, software — and you don't stop digging until you've figured it out.
• You thrive in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. You don't need to be told what the top priority is — you already know, and you're already on it.

What You'll Do

• Expand what our robots can do: take on new product types, packaging formats, and tasks, and turn them into proven, repeatable capabilities across the fleet.
• Reconstruct a customer’s environment as needed in our Brooklyn lab: get product samples and set up realistic test scenarios so we know the solution works before we deploy.
• Design clever solutions for new parts of tasks using a mechatronics toolbox: design, 3D print and assemble as needed, and test them on our robots.
• Work side-by-side with our robot pilots to prototype, run timing studies, capture performance videos, and iterate until we’re hitting the customer’s targets.
• Hand off to our field deployment team with everything they need: documented solution, schedule, requirements, and a robot that’s proven in the lab.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with robotic systems, warehouse or fulfillment environments, or industrial automation.
• Familiarity with Linux, networking, or scripting in Python.
• Experience sourcing components like actuators, sensors, cameras, or warehouse hardware.