Robotics Systems Integration & Reliability Engineer

Ultra; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultra seeks a Robotics Systems Integration Engineer to own the day-to-day health and reliability of our NYC-based industrial robot platform. This hands-on role blends software and electrical work, addressing failures that span subsystems.

You will move from symptoms to root cause, improve tooling, and ensure robots are easier to diagnose and operate reliably. You will work across Linux, networking, sensors, cabling, and application software, investigating intermittent issues, building diagnostic

Qualifications

• A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, robotics, or related discipline.
• Experience integrating, testing, or troubleshooting complex systems that combine software, embedded electronics, communications, sensors, actuators, and physical hardware.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux, including the command line, processes, services, system logs, device interfaces, and basic system administration.
• Experience writing reliable software or diagnostic tools and using instrumentation to diagnose issues.

Responsibilities

• Own the investigation of complex and intermittent robot failures across software, firmware, electrical hardware, networking, and electromechanical systems.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for difficult reliability issues discovered during development, manufacturing, deployment, and day-to-day robot operation.
• Triage incoming issues, establish severity and scope, determine evidence needed, and drive investigations from initial report through root cause and corrective action.
• Diagnose communication problems involving interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, USB, serial connections, and discrete I/O.
• Write scripts and lightweight software tools to collect diagnostic data, automate investigations, analyze logs, and reproduce failure conditions.
• Add and improve logging, metrics, health checks, and instrumentation for future failures.

Skills

Linux expertise

Systems thinking

Diagnostic tooling

Software development

Networking basics

Electrical schematics

Root cause analysis

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Logic analyzers

CAN/Ethernet debugging

Job description

Ultra seeks a Robotics Systems Integration Engineer to own the day-to-day health and reliability of our NYC-based industrial robot platform. This hands-on role blends software and electrical work, addressing failures that span subsystems.

You will move from symptoms to root cause, improve tooling, and ensure robots are easier to diagnose and operate reliably. You will work across Linux, networking, sensors, cabling, and application software, investigating intermittent issues, building diagnostic