Ultra

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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.