Robot Laboratory Manager

Overview

We’re seeking a Robot Laboratory Manager to join our NYC-based team, and help us scale our growing fleet of laboratory systems. 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 everyone.

Who You Are

• Early in your career (1–5 years experience), highly productive, organized, and self-sufficient
• You have hands-on technical skills in assembly and debugging complex electromechanical + computer systems from prior experiences
• Excited about VR and robot teleoperation, you likely have spent a lot of time in VR and/or gaming in the past
• Strong communicator who can work effectively to manage lab access and priorities which will be in high demand
• Hungry for impact and growth

What You’ll Do

• Own the day-to-day operations of our growing Robotics Lab:
  • Work with our engineering team to execute data collection projects
  • Manage the schedule of projects and ensure on-time completion
  • Coordinate work with our remote teleoperation team who pilot the robots to collect data
  • Keep the lab clean and organized, setting up for and transitioning between projects
• Pilot our robots: become our expert robot pilot through rigorous practice. You’ll become the best person at the company at driving the robots in VR to test new capabilities.
• Build and maintain systems: assemble, repair, and upgrade hardware in the lab
• Contribute to design: Help build our next-generation capabilities, from working with engineering to test new prototypes

Bonus Skills

• Familiar and comfortable with VR headsets like the Meta Quest 3 and video games that focus on performance (our best tele-operators are avid gamers)
• Experience building and troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and computer systems
• Experience with prototyping, 3D design, 3D printing
• Experience working in a corporate environment and familiarity with common tools (Excel, powerpoint, Slack, etc)

About Ultra

Ultra builds AI-native industrial robots that actually work in the real world. Our systems automate mission-critical warehouse labor end-to-end, starting with e-commerce order packaging. We deploy fast, learn from real production data, and iterate aggressively. We already have multiple revenue-generating robots operating in U.S. warehouses, and are now scaling toward hundreds of deployments over the next couple years. Our goal is simple: build the most advanced, most productive industrial AI robots on the planet.