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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Internal Systems (Robotics) at Tutor Intelligence'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Internal Systems (Robotics) at Tutor Intelligence

- **Company:** Tutor Intelligence
- **Location:** Watertown, MA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tutorintelligence/51301a04-3dbc-4c57-a8de-e5a5d72a79dc

## Job description

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.

## About the Role

Tutor designs and builds its robots, manufactures them, deploys them into customer facilities, maintains them, and teaches them new work. Each of those functions runs on software we wrote: the systems that track each robot, its site, its owner, its service history, and its current job. That software, and the shared data model underneath it, is what this role owns. Today that ownership is spread across many people. Maintenance, manufacturing, tutoring, deployment, and sales each have tools that were built by whoever needed them first, and the definitions they share live in a schema that nobody owns end to end. We're looking for a senior engineer to take responsibility for the company's internal systems and the data model they run on, and to improve both as the company grows. We build our own tools. We wrote our own PLM, and we are customizing our own MES rather than buying one off the shelf. When a function needs software we usually write it, use it ourselves, and keep improving it, and we plan to keep doing that as we grow. This role owns the systems that habit produces. This is a role for someone with senior software experience who likes operations. You'll spend time on the manufacturing floor, on deployment calls, and with the people who maintain robots in the field, because the systems you own are theirs to use. You'll also spend a lot of time in the schema, since a change to what a "robot" or a "job" means touches every function at once. A significant portion of this role involves working with AI coding agents. Internal tools are a good fit for agents, and you'll direct them to build and maintain a large surface of internal software, review their output critically, and design the interfaces and data that make them effective.

## What You'll Do

- Own the shared data model: The definitions of robots, sites, customers, parts, jobs, and people that every internal system reads. You decide how it changes, migrate it safely, and keep it the single source of truth as new functions are added
- Own the internal systems each operations function runs on: Maintenance tickets and service history, manufacturing work orders and serialized builds, tutoring and teleoperation queues, deployment records, and the handoff from sales into all of them
- Turn how a function works into software: Sit with the people doing the work, understand the process, and build the system that carries it out
- Keep operations data trustworthy: Reconcile systems that disagree, replace the spreadsheets, and build the reporting the company uses for its weekly decisions
- Build with AI agents: Direct agents across a large internal codebase, keep the codebase in a shape agents work well in, and review what they produce
- Support the people who use what you build: Same-day answers when a floor or field process is blocked on a tool, and a fix to the process itself when the tool was not the problem

## What We're Looking For

- 6+ years building production software, including ownership of internal or operational systems: You have owned a system a business depends on day to day
- Data modeling as a discipline: You have designed and evolved a relational schema that many teams depended on, and carried out the migrations. PostgreSQL experience preferred
- Full-stack fluency: TypeScript and React on the front end, Python or TypeScript services on the back end, and comfort in whichever layer the problem is in
- Comfort with the people side of operations: You can sit with a technician or a plant manager, understand what they do, and come back with software that fits it
- Comfort with AI coding agents: You have used tools like Claude Code or similar for real engineering work, directing agents through multi-step tasks. You understand their failure modes and know when to trust vs. verify
- Judgment about what to build: You lean toward building a tool over buying one, and you can tell when buying is right. You know when a process needs software and when it does not

## Nice to Have

- Manufacturing or field-service systems: MES, ERP, work orders, serialized inventory, maintenance management
- Robotics or hardware companies, where the things being tracked are physical
- Data warehousing and analytics: dbt, ClickHouse, Metabase, or similar
- gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- Having been the first or only engineer on internal tools at a growing company

## About Our Roles & 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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