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Senior Electrical Engineer

Ultra
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$175k - $280kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Electrical Engineer position at Ultra, NYC-based team, responsible for reliability, manufacturability, and cost of Ultra's electronics stack as the fleet scales from 50 to 1000+ robots.

Responsibilities

  • Make Ultra's electronics stack bulletproof for every adverse customer environment — heat, dust, vibration, electrical noise, and everything else real warehouses throw at our robots — as we scale from 50 to 1000+ deployed units.
  • Debug and fix intermittent digital communications errors across the fleet, driving toward zero errors per day at fleet scale.
  • Lead design and component selection for multi-subsystem improvements to Ultra's electronics stack for OP1 and beyond — including motors, power supplies, communications hardware, cameras, and more.
  • Work with contract manufacturers and vendors to get robots manufactured at 1000+ scale, including cabling, overmolded connectors, PCBA QA, and more.
  • Realize systematic cost reductions to hit aggressive BOM cost targets without compromising reliability.
  • Lead rapid design loops to ship improvements fast — prototype, validate on the robots in the lab and in the field, learn, and refine.
  • Make build-vs-buy decisions for electronics and subsystems, selecting off-the-shelf components when smart and developing custom designs when it creates strategic advantage.

Qualifications

  • You are a senior electrical engineer with multiple years of experience shipping robotic or electromechanical systems into production — you've taken hardware from prototype through volume manufacturing and lived with the consequences of your design decisions in the field.
  • You have a portfolio of robust electronics designs and a track record of hunting down the hardest classes of bugs: intermittent faults, signal integrity issues, EMI/EMC problems, and failures that only appear at scale.
  • You enjoy problem solving, almost to a fault.
  • You think in fleets, not units. You know that a failure mode affecting 0.1% of robots is a daily fire at 1000+ deployments, and you design accordingly.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Full electrical hardware stack (schematic capture, PCB design, DFM/DFT)Power electronics (power supplies, distribution, motor drives, protection)Digital communications buses (CAN, Ethernet, USB)Component sourcing, qualification, and testingElectrical assembly and rework (cable harnesses, bench testing)Manufacturing at scale with contract manufacturersCost engineeringEnvironmental robustnessCommunication with customers and vendorsProblem solving and cross-functional collaborationTravel to customer and supplier sites
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks

Ultra builds practical, general-purpose robots that are deploying—and producing ROI—today. Unlike traditional industrial automation that’s rigid and complex, our robots are zero integration (able to be installed in hours, not weeks) and are highly flexible, capable of quickly learning new tasks and delivering immediate value to customers. Founded by a team of three-time entrepreneurs with a decade of collaboration, Ultra moves fast. We already have robots in the field generating revenue and data, with plans to rapidly scale deployments this year.

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