Robotics Application Engineer - Software

Ultra • Brooklyn, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

We're seeking a Robotics Application Software 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 a part of the team that brings our projects to life - 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.

Requirements

• Strong software engineer with hands-on machine vision and motion planning experience.
• Shipped code that makes robots see and move.
• Likes customers.
• Organized and dependable. Owns timelines and communicates proactively.
• Digs into complex systems — software, electrical, mechanical — until they understand them.
• Thrives in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment.

Nice To Haves

• Robotics, warehouse, fulfillment, or industrial automation experience.
• OpenCV, PCL, MoveIt, OMPL; depth cameras, point clouds, 6DoF pose estimation.
• Linux, Python or C++; bonus for ROS, gRPC, industrial protocols (Modbus, EtherNet/IP, OPC UA, serial).

Responsibilities

• Run customer kickoffs: study their operation, collect KPIs and integration requirements, build the plan.
• Integrate with customer systems — WMS, conveyors, PLCs, printers, scanners — over USB, ethernet, and API.
• Build the robot workflow: task logic, perception, and planning on top of our stack.
• Support the buildout of a demo-environment in our facility when necessary to prove we are hitting customer KPIs before deployment
• Work with our human robot pilots to run timing studies, iterate until we hit the customer's numbers.
• Hand off to field deployment with documentation, scripts, runbooks, and software proven in the lab.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed