Robotics Application Engineer: Lab-to-Deployment Specialist

Roboticsconnected; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultra is seeking a Robotics Application Engineer to join our NYC-based team and own the technical journey from sale close to live deployment in a customer warehouse. You’ll bridge sales and field support, gathering requirements, designing and building lab solutions to confirm deployment readiness, and handing off a production-ready deployment to our field team.

We’re an early-stage, fast-moving company welcoming people from diverse backgrounds who are excited to drive impact and help make

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Customer-facing

Mechatronics

Systems thinking

Tools

Linux

Python

Job description

Ultra is seeking a Robotics Application Engineer to join our NYC-based team and own the technical journey from sale close to live deployment in a customer warehouse. You’ll bridge sales and field support, gathering requirements, designing and building lab solutions to confirm deployment readiness, and handing off a production-ready deployment to our field team.

We’re an early-stage, fast-moving company welcoming people from diverse backgrounds who are excited to drive impact and help make