About Ultra

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Who You Are

• 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.

Experience and Skills

• 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)