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But robots are a rounding error in our society: nearly nine out of ten American factories and warehouses don’t even have a single robot, and robots have yet to make their way into our homes or places of business.\nTutor Intelligence is changing that.\nTutor is a robotics research and deployment company, building generally capable robot hardware and artificial intelligence to enable robots to go where no robots have gone before. Our robots range from a semi-humanoid with frontier dexterity approaching the human form to workhorses that do back-breaking work, moving boxes, pallets, and bulk goods for businesses from family-owned manufacturers to some of the largest brands in the world. Tutor robots are manufactured at scale and operate as a network, combining the whole fleet’s learned experience to train ever more capable robot artificial intelligence.\nFounded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, our team is full stack: we design and manufacture robot hardware, train our own models, work directly with the smallest and largest end-customers, and maintain our fleet across the United States. We’re a team of researchers, engineers, technicians, operators, and sellers who love building things and solving hard problems.\nOur mission is grand: robots everywhere, for the common good, raising the standard of living across North America, and then the world.\nThe Role\nYou lead our Production Engineering team: the engineers and technicians who take robot designs from prototype to mass production. You report to the Head of Manufacturing.\nYour job is to design the system and the machine that build our robots: the processes, test systems, tooling and change control that let Manufacturing produce high-quality robots at a competitive cost, even as designs change fast.\nThis is a player-coach role. You set direction, assign the work and grow the team, and you stay hands-on. You are in design reviews, at the bench with a scope, and on the floor debugging a robot that needs to ship.\nWhy This Role Matters\nEvery robot we ship has to be built right, tested right and delivered on time, while the design behind it keeps improving. That only works with a strong team and a production system built for change. Much of that system doesn't exist yet. You build it, and the team that runs it.\nWhat You'll Own\nLead the team: Set priorities and assign work across production engineers, test and bring-up engineers, technicians and contract engineers. Hold clear technical standards and review the team's work.\nGrow the team: Hire, mentor and develop engineers. Shape a team structure that scales as production grows.\nPrototype to production: Own how new designs move from prototype through pilot builds into volume production, with the processes, work instructions, tooling, fixtures and station design to support them.\nTest and bring-up: Own the test strategy across the line, from subassembly bench tests to station tests, robot bring-up and final acceptance, so defects are caught early and never reach a customer.\nEngineering change: Represent Manufacturing in design change reviews and own how changes are cut in on the line without losing quality or output.\nDesign for manufacturing: Partner with hardware engineering so designs arrive buildable, testable, serviceable and cost-effective.\nRecurring failures: Use data from the line and the field to drive recurring problems to root cause and permanent fixes.\nStay hands-on: Debug electrical, mechanical and system-level issues yourself when a robot needs to ship.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn your first few months: You've worked the floor with the team and earned their trust. Every engineer knows their priorities and what they own. The top recurring build failures have clear root causes and fixes underway, and you've laid out a plan for test, change control and the team.\nIn your first year: Robots move through bring-up and final test with little rework. Design changes reach the line cleanly. New designs arrive production-ready. The team is growing, owns its work and holds a high bar without you in the room.\nRequired\nBachelor's in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer or Mechatronics Engineering. A Master's is a plus.\nProven experience leading engineers: setting priorities, assigning work, reviewing output and developing people. A formal manager or technical lead title both count. We care about what you did with the team you had.\nDeep hands-on hardware experience designing, integrating and debugging complex electromechanical systems. You still find root cause yourself.\nStrong electrical fundamentals. You read schematics, use scopes and meters, and isolate problems across power, boards, harnesses, sensors, actuators and communication interfaces.\nExperience taking hardware from prototype through new product introduction into volume production.\nExperience building production test systems: fixtures, bring-up, end-of-line or automated test.\nHands-on design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test work with design engineering.\nExperience managing engineering change on an active production line.\nYou use AI tools daily in your engineering work and can show us how.\nPreferred\nBuilt or scaled a production or manufacturing engineering team at a hardware startup.\nRobotics or industrial automation experience.\nCost reduction work: should-cost, value engineering, or BOM and labor reduction.\nPython for test automation, diagnostics or data analysis.\nExperience with MES, traceability or change control systems.\nContract manufacturer or supplier bring-up.\nWhy Join\nBuild the team and the system. You shape how we build robots and who builds them.\nLead without leaving the hardware. You manage a team and still get your hands dirty.\nReal hardware, real stakes. Your fixes run on robots working at customer sites.\nAI is how we work. You have the tools and the backing to automate what most factories still do by hand.\nDirect line to leadership. Work side by side with hardware, software and deployment teams.\nHow We Work: Our Values in This Role\nWe hire against our values, and we'll interview you against them too. Here's what they look like in this seat:\nLove of the Game. You lead from the bench, not from a slide deck.\nGumption. When a robot won't ship, you and your team are already on the floor finding out why.\nBeginner's Mindset. You question how we build and test today, and you change your mind fast when the data says to.\nBelief in Each Other. You give your engineers real ownership, help them grow, and earn the hardware team's respect by being right and being fair.\nKeep Moving Forward. You find the fix that keeps the line moving today, then make it permanent.\n Customer Obsession. Every shortcut on the line shows up at a customer site. 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