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title: 'Patent Agent / Patent Engineer (Robotics) at Tutor Intelligence'
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# Patent Agent / Patent Engineer (Robotics) at Tutor Intelligence

- **Company:** Tutor Intelligence
- **Location:** Watertown, MA
- **Compensation:** $135k–$170k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tutorintelligence/0cd17db5-ba25-4af9-baad-516fd5b85f62

## Job description

The Job: Tutor Intelligence is a robotics research and deployment company, innovating across the full robotics stack– hardware, software systems, applications, machine learning, and more. We generate patentable inventions faster than we can keep up with, and we are hiring our first in-house patent engineer to own the portfolio. The Company: 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. As an AI robotics company that deploys its inventions directly into the facilities that need them, on state-of-the-art hardware, every line of code written at Tutor has a direct impact on the global, physical economy. Our Culture: We believe that something truly special can happen when talented, motivated people work together; at Tutor, every member of our team is empowered to have real impact in everything that they do. We’re characterized by both technical excellence and next-level collaboration and respect.

Responsibilities:

- Knowing what to file: You stay close to what engineering is building, work out which of it is worth patenting, and get it filed in time.
- The filings: You write our patent applications: claims, specification, figures. Outside counsel reviews and prosecutes them.
- The portfolio: Deadlines, fees, counsel spend, and where every matter stands. You keep it in order and flag what needs a decision.
- Outside IP questions: Diligence, customers, partners. You know the portfolio well enough to answer.
- Strategy with founders and leadership: You identify what we need to know in order to make sound decisions about what, when, and how we file, and you make those choices with us.

Pre-Requisites:

A JD is unnecessary, and applicants need not be registered patent agents, though applicants with either or both of these qualifications are more than welcome.

The strongest candidates are engineers first: current on the cutting edge of robotics and physical AI, credible in a technical review with our researchers, experienced in both patent drafting and working with counsel, and able to operate with autonomy and conviction in this role.

- 2+ years drafting patent applications in robotics, mechatronics, controls, computer vision, or machine learning, with a body of applications you personally drafted
- BS or MS in mechanical engineering, EE, CS, or robotics, with enough depth to read our code, learn our systems, and capture what is novel about them
- The ability to pull invention out of busy engineers without becoming a tax on their time
- Precise technical writing, and comfort being the person the record depends on
- Judgment about what deserves protection, what's a trade secret, and what to let go

Nice to Have:

- Experience at a hardware or robotics startup where the portfolio was still being built
- Experience managing an outside firm as the client, on scope, quality, and spend

Logistics Onsite in Watertown, MA. The robots and the engineers are here.

## 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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