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title: 'Controller at Tutor Intelligence'
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# Controller at Tutor Intelligence

- **Company:** Tutor Intelligence
- **Location:** Watertown, MA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tutorintelligence/1d83fdae-e6a8-4d97-91bb-3a99076255f8

## Job description

We're hiring our first Controller.

Tutor builds robot workers and we build them ourselves — off our own line in Watertown, into factories and warehouses across the country, maintained by our own field team. That gives us a manufacturer's balance sheet inside a fast-moving, venture-backed company: inventory, BOMs, landed cost, work orders, warranty, fixed assets. You would own it outright.

You would report to the Head of Finance and be the senior accounting leader. You will work often with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Engineering, and sit close to the financing and lender work as it happens.

This is a player-coach role. We're looking for a builder who still makes things, not an operator who needs a large org to function. And we're an AI company: we expect you to build an AI-native accounting organization where an elite team produces at unusual scale.

## What You'll Own

- Lead all accounting and month-end close activities
- Oversee general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll
- Develop and maintain internal controls, financial policies, and compliance procedures
- Manage the audit process. Support and coordinate all internal and external audit activity
- Lender reporting — covenant tracking and borrowing-base packages

## Requirements

- 6-10 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, with a combination of public accounting and industry experience strongly preferred
- Strong technical accounting foundation and demonstrated knowledge of U.S. GAAP
- Experience in hardware, manufacturing, or another inventory-carrying business
- You have personally owned a monthly close end to end
- You have been on the company-side through an external audit
- Fixed assets, depreciation, and lease accounting (ASC 842)
- ERP and MES fluency

Nice to Haves (Zero or More)

- CPA
- Startup experience, particularly a company between roughly 100 and 300 people
- You took a venture-backed company through its first audit
- Duty, tariff, and country-of-origin exposure on imported components
- Debt covenant and borrowing-base reporting
- Experience with Rillet, Ramp, or Rippling

Tutor Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

## About Tutor Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tutor Intelligence builds AI-powered robot workers for manufacturing and logistics, deploying intelligent physical automation that adapts to dynamic industrial environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, total funding $78.7M)
- **Headquarters**: Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2021 (earliest corporate round)
- **Founders**: Josh Gruenstein (CEO) and Alon Kosowsky-Sachs (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation, Logistics & Warehousing
- Target customers: B2B – manufacturing plants, warehouses, 3PLs, and large-scale industrial operations (Enterprise)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To build fundamental AI technology to enable generally capable robot workers and partner with industry to deploy them" – solving the hardest problems in physical machine intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **[Cassie](https://tutorintelligence.com/)**: A purpose-built robot for material handling – palletizing, depalletizing, and case picking. Deployed in days, handles unlimited SKUs, works 24/7 with a simple tablet interface. Pricing starts at $14/hour per robot or per-pick models.
- **[Sonny](https://tutorintelligence.com/)**: A humanoid robot designed for the "messy middle" of manual labor – complex assembly, irregular tasks. Industrial-grade hardware, trained on internet-scale data. Available for deployment starting late 2026.
- **Platform & Fleet Management**: Full B2B logistics workflow automation (replen to picking to palletizing) with per-pick pricing, remote 24/7 support, and continuous AI improvements.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $78.7M (latest round: $40.5M venture round in June 2025; Series A $34M in December 2025 led by Union Square Ventures and Fundomo)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Union Square Ventures, Fundomo; partners with world’s largest 3PLs and brands (deployed in dozens of factories and warehouses)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 278.8% YoY to 69 employees (as of early 2026); 38 active job postings; monthly job postings up 40.7%; expanding into humanoid robotics with Sonny; offices across US, India, Canada, Portugal, South Africa.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deployment speed**: Robots are operational "in days" without changes to existing infrastructure – reads pallet specs like human workers.
- **Flexible pricing**: Per-hour ($14/hr) or per-pick models with no contract lock-in, lowering cost of fulfillment by 20%+.
- **AI-first approach**: Robots learn from human interaction in real environments, continuously improving via an intelligence platform.
- **Proven real-world impact**: Already deployed across dozens of facilities for major brands, not just pilots.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale deployments of Cassie across more warehouses and factories.
- Launch Sonny humanoid robot in late 2026 for complex manual tasks.
- Continue advancing physical AI research (founded out of MIT CSAIL) to expand robot capabilities into new industries.
- Grow the fleet and per-pick pricing model to capture more of the B2B logistics workflow.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced startup with deep roots in MIT CSAIL research – a blend of cutting-edge AI/robotics and real-world industrial impact.
- **Work model**: On-site in Watertown, MA (employees work from physical offices). Offices also in India, Canada, Portugal, South Africa.
- **Growth**: 278% YoY headcount growth, 38 open roles across engineering, research, sales, and operations – strong upward mobility.
- **Roles**: Robotics engineers, perception engineers, full-stack developers, research scientists, field technicians, account executives, and more.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on 24/7 remote support, always-on AI improvements, and no contract lock-in suggests a team that values reliability and customer success.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on solving hardest problems in machine intelligence; teams work at the edge of AI, robotics, and operations.

## Sources
1. [tutorintelligence.com](https://tutorintelligence.com/)
2. [tutorintelligence.com/about](https://tutorintelligence.com/about)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tutorintelligence)
4. [Built In Boston – Tutor Intelligence](https://www.builtinboston.com/company/tutor-intelligence)

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