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Robotics Application Engineer - Software
Ultra
Brooklyn$110k–150kOn-site4w ago
- Employment
- Full-time
About the role
About Ultra
Overview
Who You Are
- Strong software engineer with hands-on machine vision and motion planning experience. You've shipped code that makes robots see and move.
- You like customers. A good customer call energizes you as much as a good debugging session.
- Organized and dependable. You own timelines and communicate proactively.
- You dig into complex systems — software, electrical, mechanical — until you understand them.
- High-trust, high-autonomy environment suits you. You already know the top priority and you're already on it.
What You'll Do
- 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.
Bonus Skills
- 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).
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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