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title: 'Electrical Engineer at Tutor Intelligence'
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# Electrical Engineer at Tutor Intelligence

- **Company:** Tutor Intelligence
- **Location:** Watertown, MA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tutorintelligence/a4c58d4a-361b-4b25-83bb-2d3fe038f744

## Job description

Tutor Intelligence builds AI robotics systems and deploys them into the facilities that need them. We believe research and deployment should improve each other: real-world operation reveals the problems worth solving, and better technology makes robots more useful. Join a team where your designs, experiments, and code have a direct impact on physical systems.

We value technical excellence, collaboration, and respect. Engineers take ownership, make tradeoffs explicit, and help colleagues do better work. We move quickly through building, testing, and learning from what happens on the robot.

Build the electrical systems that connect robot hardware, sensing, and control. You will own complex electrical subsystems from requirements and architecture through PCB design, bench bring-up, integration, and reliable repeated use.

The work spans power distribution, custom boards, sensor and actuator interfaces, wiring, and the firmware needed to bring those systems to life. You will partner with mechanical, software, and research engineers to make experimental hardware robust, measurable, and easy to reproduce.

## Responsibilities

- Define electrical requirements, architecture, interface contracts, and validation plans for robot subsystems.
- Design schematics and PCB layouts; select components and manage prototyping, fabrication, assembly, and revisions.
- Design power distribution, grounding, protection, connectors, and harnesses appropriate to motors, sensors, and embedded compute.
- Integrate sensors, actuators, and motor controllers, including embedded interfaces and bring-up firmware as needed.
- Use bench measurements and repeatable tests to isolate faults, including intermittent noise, power, and communication failures.
- Validate electrical behavior on the assembled robot and resolve integration risks with mechanical and software colleagues.
- Deliver design files, bills of materials, harness documentation, firmware interfaces, and acceptance tests; own reliability improvements after handoff.

## Requirements

- Evidence of independently owning a complex electrical subsystem, including personally designing a PCB and taking it through fabrication, bring-up, and integration.
- Strong practical analog and digital fundamentals, power electronics, and signal integrity.
- Confidence using oscilloscopes, multimeters, bench supplies, and other measurement tools to test hypotheses and diagnose failures.
- Experience connecting sensors or actuators to microcontrollers, embedded compute, or control software.
- Ability to reason about grounding, noise, protection, thermal limits, and failure modes in an assembled system.
- Ability to communicate tradeoffs, resolve cross-disciplinary interfaces, and document designs and measurements for others.

## Nice to have

- Robotics, motor control, force or tactile sensing, or synchronized sensor acquisition.
- Embedded C or C++, Python test tooling, and interfaces such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, or Ethernet.
- EMI troubleshooting, harness design, design for manufacturing, and repeated hardware builds.

What Success Looks Like

- Deliver an agreed electrical subsystem with verified interfaces and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Bring up and validate the subsystem on the robot, with tests that expose likely and intermittent failures.
- Make subsequent builds and maintenance predictable through clear documentation, diagnostics, and feedback-driven fixes.

## About our Roles and Titles

At Tutor, we believe great engineers and researchers are defined by what they build and the impact they have — not where they sit in an org chart or what title they have. Therefore, everyone in our R&D org holds the title Member of Technical Staff (MoTS). Our job postings use standard titles so you can find us, but if you join Tutor, you'll be a MoTS — with a level that is determined through the interview process.

That also means we hire people, not slots. Work at Tutor evolves every quarter, and we set the expectation of flexibility from day one — it's common for people to start on one thing and shift to another based on where the team needs them most. A high technical bar across the board is what makes that flexibility possible: it's what allows people to contribute meaningfully whatever problem they take on.

## 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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