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But most American factories and warehouses still don’t have a single robot. Tutor Intelligence is changing that.\nWe build robots that go straight into real factories and warehouses, to do real work, with real impact. Our robots move boxes, pallets and bulk goods, and pick and pack with human-like dexterity, for family-owned manufacturers and some of the largest brands in the world. Every robot learns on the job, and each one we deploy makes the next one more capable, more affordable and faster to put to work.\nFounded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, we do it all in-house: the robotics hardware, the machine learning, and the field deployment and service.\nThe Role\nYou are our first Head of Supply Chain. Your mandate: the supply base never limits how fast we build and deploy robots.\nYou’ll build the function from the ground up (the team, the supplier base, the planning engine and the tools) and run it on data, engineering judgment and AI, not spreadsheets. You’ll be on supplier floors in Asia, at the table from first CAD, and accountable for cost going down every quarter.\nAt a glance\nReports to: Co-founder & CTO\nPeers: Head of Manufacturing, Head of Quality\nLocation: Watertown, MA, on-site\nTravel: ~25%, including regular trips to suppliers in China and Asia\nCompensation: $220,000-$280,000 base + equity\nWhat you’ll own\nStrategic sourcing and the Asia supply base\nSet commodity strategy across mechanical, electrical and electronic components\nKill single sources on every critical component. Qualify second sources in China and lower-cost regions, and onshore where it makes sense\nDevelop suppliers, not just buy from them: help them add capacity, fix yield and grow with us. Be on their floor\nSelect and run contract manufacturers for subassemblies and future outsourced builds\nNegotiate contracts, pricing, index agreements and capacity reservations. Drive BOM cost down every quarter\nProcurement and planning\nOwn purchasing end to end\nTurn the deployment schedule and build plan into a supply plan: MRP, long-lead buys, safety stock and clear-to-build\nOwn the systems that run it. Today that is our MES and a PLM we built in-house. You decide what we build, buy or automate next\nLogistics and trade\nInbound freight from Asia and outbound robot shipping to customer sites across the US and Canada\nImport, customs, tariffs and landed cost, plus regulated and hazmat shipping compliance\n3PL partners\nHow you’ll work\nInside NPI. Supply chain is at the table from first CAD, not handed a frozen BOM\nNo silos. You’ll push back on designs that can’t be sourced at scale, and engineers will push back on you\nBuild your own tools. Use AI and data to watch supplier risk, lead times and cost in real time, not in a monthly spreadsheet\nThe two systems you’ll build\nYou’ll design and build these with your team and AI, then run the company’s supply chain on them. Not bought off the shelf. Not run in spreadsheets.\n1. Line-down prevention: the line never stops for a part\nDemand-to-dock visibility: one live view linking deployment schedule, build plan, BOM, inventory, open POs and supplier capacity\nShortage early warning: flags any part that will stop the line well before it does, with an owner and recovery plan attached\nSupplier health scoring: delivery, quality, capacity headroom, single-source exposure, and financial and geopolitical risk for every critical supplier\nAutomatic triggers: expedites, buffer stock and second-source activation kick in before a shortage, not after\nClear-to-build: tells Manufacturing exactly what can be built and when, with no surprises at the line\n2. Cost-down engine: cost goes down every quarter by design\nShould-cost models for every major component and assembly, so we negotiate from facts\n Savings pipeline tracking every idea (renegotiation, second source, design change, consolidation, localization) from proposal to realized savings\nTrue landed cost, including freight, duties and tariffs, so every sourcing decision runs on real numbers\nDesign-for-supply loop that feeds cost and sourcing risk back into NPI so cost gets designed out early\nQuarterly cost roadmap reviewed with Engineering and Finance\nWhat success looks like in year one\n90 days: Supply base mapped by commodity, with risk, lead time and capacity for every critical part. Team hired or in flight\n6 months: Second sources qualified and shipping for our highest-risk components. Supply base ready for our second product line’s in-house launch\n12 months: No supplier limits a build at our target rate, with dual sources in place across critical components\n12 months: BOM cost on a committed downward path, with a plan for the next year\n12 months: Supply plan, supplier scorecards and cost tracked live, not rebuilt by hand\nYour team\nYou’ll inherit a small, hands-on group and build the rest. Expect to own:\nAsia supply base and contract manufacturing: supplier development lead, supplier engineers in the US and China, a contract manufacturing program manager, and electronics sourcing\nPurchasing, planning and logistics roles as volume demands\nWe run a lean permanent core and scale with contractors. You decide the shape.\nWho you are\nYou’ve taken a hardware supply chain from startup to volume production, ideally in robotics, warehouse automation or other complex electromechanical systems\nYou know electromechanical commodities, from fabricated and cast parts to electronics, motion and power\nYou’ve developed suppliers in China and other low-cost regions, in person, and can tell a supplier that can scale from one that can’t\nYou’ve selected and managed contract manufacturers, and taken real cost out through negotiation, value engineering and design changes\nYou’ve led NPI sourcing from early design through production ramp\nYou’ve built and led teams, and you still get your hands dirty\nYou negotiate hard and keep the relationship\nYou’re technical enough to challenge engineers on design-for-supply and earn their respect doing it\nStrong signals\nYou’ve stood up an ERP/MRP or supply chain tooling from nothing, and know when not to\nYou use AI and automation in your own daily work, 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