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Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
Onsite
We believe general-purpose, generally-intelligent robots will be built in our lifetimes. Robots will work in our factories, move our goods, walk on our streets and eventually be in our homes. To build that future, research and deployment must work in lockstep: real-world operation must make the technology better, and better technology must make deployment easier. We're looking for the thinkers, builders, and researchers who want to be part of that loop.
Founded by MIT alumni and backed by over $40M from leading AI and robotics investors, we deploy real robotic systems directly into the facilities that power the physical economy. We don't just build robots — we build them, ship them, and keep them running.
You own how our robots' electrical architecture is physically realized: harnesses, connectors, cable sizing, board interfaces, routing, and every connection point. Engineering designs the circuits. You make sure the boards, cables, and connections come together into something a technician can build in an hour, a field tech can repair at a customer site, and a robot can carry through years of motion, vibration, and warehouse floors.
Where we are today: a robot that works, with an electrical package that was integrated rather than designed. Some harnesses are still built on the robot instead of released as controlled assemblies. Power and signal share bundles and glands. Cables cross fan intakes and rest on the floor pan. Connectors that should latch don't. The arm dress pack is our biggest reliability risk. Our PDU is the one example of what a designed electrical component looks like on the program — your job is to make everything else look like that.
The role works in two phases. While a robot is in development you're embedded with Hardware Engineering: building the cables and harnesses, meticulous about the CAD and the runs, in the board layout review asking "can we move this connector to that edge so the harness terminates here" and "give me a keyed part so it can't go in backwards" — you don't design the circuit, but you shape where it meets the rest of the robot. You select connectors and components with the EEs and own board and part ordering so engineering is never waiting. When the robot goes through NPI or an ECO you move with it into Manufacturing: releasing drawings, supporting ordering, training technicians, and clearing electrical issues on the floor. Inline with the design as it happens, not a review gate after it's done.
You'll spend most of your days with the hardware team, so fit with that group matters as much as the skill set. Reports to the Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a dotted line to Hardware Engineering.
Turn the prototype into a product
Shape the boards from the interface side
Design the electrical package
Take it through NPI and keep it clean
Make it stick on the floor and in the field
You love building things that didn't exist before, and you get real satisfaction from watching a design you finished get built by someone else without a single question.
You take ownership. Nobody has to tell you the harness drawing is late or the connector is wrong — you already saw it and you're already fixing it. Cabling and parts are your first priority, so they are never the reason the robot is late.
You stay curious. You want to know why a cable failed, not just replace it, and you're happy to learn from the technician who has built forty of them.
You hold a high bar and you're direct with your teammates when the design isn't ready, because you want the EEs, the floor, and the customer to win.
When the answer isn't obvious, you find the 80/20 path, make a smart call, and keep the product moving forward.
You never forget there's a customer on the other end of every robot, and a bad connector at a customer site is your problem.
We offer unlimited PTO and holidays. We host social events and maintain a collaborative, low-ego work culture where people are trusted to take ownership and solve real problems. Tutor is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
