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title: 'HR Compliance & Benefits Administrator at Tutor Intelligence'
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# HR Compliance & Benefits Administrator at Tutor Intelligence

- **Company:** Tutor Intelligence
- **Location:** Watertown, MA
- **Compensation:** $95k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tutorintelligence/81b1c21a-9ea6-4b12-80f1-0355091645a6

## Job description

## About Tutor

We believe robots are the biggest lever we have to making the physical world a better, more affordable place. 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. Tutor Intelligence is changing that. Tutor 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. Sonny is a semi-humanoid robot with frontier dexterity approaching the human form. Cassie does 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. Founded 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. Our mission is grand: robots everywhere, for the common good, raising the standard of living across North America, and then the world.

Why Tutor? Whether you’re designing robots, closing deals, running deployments, or creating the processes that help us scale, your work doesn’t sit on a shelf. It shows up on real production floors, making physical work safer and more affordable. Our team of 160+ is driven by curiosity and a genuine love of building. Everyone here takes real ownership, learns fast, and holds a high bar while having each other’s backs. If you love hard problems and creating things that didn’t exist before, you’ll fit right in.

## The Role

The HR Compliance & Benefits Administrator is the owner of the high-stakes, time-sensitive work on the People team: benefits, leave and accommodations, immigration, and multi-state employment compliance. You’ll be our in-house expert on the things that can’t slip, and the person who makes sure a leave case, a visa deadline, or a state filing never becomes a fire drill.

We’re looking for someone who actually likes this work: who finds a clean benefits reconciliation satisfying, reads the fine print, and gets a quiet thrill out of knowing the answer before someone asks. You’re meticulous without being rigid, you can translate a regulation into a plain-English answer for an employee who is stressed, and you know when a question is yours to answer and when it needs a lawyer. You’ve done this at a company that was growing fast and crossing state lines, and you know what breaks when it isn’t done right.

This role reports to our People Operations Lead and partners closely with Finance and outside counsel.

## What you’ll own

- Benefits administration end to end: enrollment, qualifying life events, vendor and broker management, reconciliation, and annual renewal and open enrollment
- Leave and accommodations: FMLA, state leave programs (including MA PFML), disability, parental leave, and ADA accommodations, from first request through return to work
- Immigration: coordinating H-1B and other visa cases with outside counsel, tracking deadlines, and keeping employees informed
- Multi-state employment compliance: registrations, required postings and notices, pay transparency, and keeping our policies current as we add states
- Required filings and audits: ACA, 401(k) nondiscrimination testing, EEO-1, workers’ comp, and whatever else comes with growth
- Owning the Employee Handbook and policy library from a compliance perspective, and flagging when something needs to change
- Being the plain-English answer for employees with benefits, leave, or immigration questions

## Requirements

- 4+ years in HR compliance, benefits administration, or a combination of the two, at a company with employees in multiple states
- Hands-on experience administering leave (FMLA and at least one state program) and ADA accommodations
- Experience running an open enrollment and working directly with a benefits broker and carriers
- Working knowledge of multi-state employment law and the judgment to know when to escalate to counsel
- Meticulous with details and deadlines; you keep a tracker and it is always right
- Discreet, calm, and kind with employees in sensitive situations
- Based in or willing to relocate to the Boston area; this role is in-office in Watertown, MA

Nice to haves

- Experience transitioning a company off a PEO
- Experience coordinating employment-based immigration cases (H-1B, O-1, green card processes) with counsel
- Experience supporting a mixed hourly and salaried workforce, including manufacturing or field employees
- SHRM-CP, PHR, or CEBS certification
- Experience with Rippling

## 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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