Senior Mechatronics Engineer - Robot Platform

Ultra • Brooklyn, OH

4h

About The Position

We’re seeking a Senior Mechatronics Engineer - Robot Platform to join our
NYC-based team and help evolve our robot platform from high-performing
prototypes into scalable, resilient products ready for manufacturing and
deployment at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of R&D, operations, and supply chain. You’ll
take feedback from our deployed systems as well as new R&D concepts and drive
them toward manufacturable, resilient, and supportable systems — making the
right tradeoffs between performance, reliability, cost, and scalability.

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 help create a future where automation is
accessible to all.

Requirements

• You have seen a hardware platform transition from early stages to scale, and understand all of the pieces that are necessary to make that scale possible.
• You naturally consider reliability, maintainability, and operational realities when making design decisions.
• You’re comfortable moving between mechanical, electrical, and systems-level thinking.
• You thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments and work backwards from real-world needs.
• You enjoy turning messy, early-stage designs into clean, robust, repeatable systems.
• You are hungry for impact and personal growth, and want to help build the future of robotics with a small, highly capable team.
• Full-stack mechatronics experience
• 3D design, rapid prototyping, and design for manufacturing/assembly
• Mechanical and electrical assembly, debugging, hands-on fabrication
• Experience improving reliability and simplifying designs for production
• Strong intuition for failure modes and operational resilience
• Platform & manufacturing
• Experience shipping hardware into real-world environments
• Working with CM/ODM partners or production suppliers
• Understanding of mechanical tolerances, electrical wiring and strain relief, QC processes, and scaling challenges
• Sourcing motors, sensors, cameras, and custom components
• Communication & collaboration
• Strong communication skills with vendors, customers, and internal teams
• Excellent research and problem-solving ability — able to quickly evaluate tradeoffs across vendors and technologies and know when to go deep on a problem
• Willingness to travel to customer and supplier sites within the US and internationally to build strong relationships across the board (including China, Mexico, and the EU)

Responsibilities

• Own a significant portion of our robot's hardware platform - you are responsible for mechanical and electrical design and component selection.
• Work with operations and deployment teams to identify recurring field issues and solve them with engineering improvements
• Help transition advanced R&D prototypes that expand our capabilities into platform designs we can deploy at scale
• Help define platform standards, common interfaces, and reusable modules that simplify assembly while improving resilience and serviceability
• Collaborate with the larger team to select reliable hardware partners, improve component quality, and reduce supply chain risk.

What This Job Offers

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