Engineering Manager, Production Engineering

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. Our robots range from a semi-humanoid with frontier dexterity approaching the human form to workhorses that do 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.

You lead our Production Engineering team: the engineers and technicians who take robot designs from prototype to mass production. You report to the Head of Manufacturing.

Your job is to design the system and the machine that build our robots: the processes, test systems, tooling and change control that let Manufacturing produce high-quality robots at a competitive cost, even as designs change fast.

This is a player-coach role. You set direction, assign the work and grow the team, and you stay hands-on. You are in design reviews, at the bench with a scope, and on the floor debugging a robot that needs to ship.

Every robot we ship has to be built right, tested right and delivered on time, while the design behind it keeps improving. That only works with a strong team and a production system built for change. Much of that system doesn't exist yet. You build it, and the team that runs it.

In your first few months: You've worked the floor with the team and earned their trust. Every engineer knows their priorities and what they own. The top recurring build failures have clear root causes and fixes underway, and you've laid out a plan for test, change control and the team.

In your first year: Robots move through bring-up and final test with little rework. Design changes reach the line cleanly. New designs arrive production-ready. The team is growing, owns its work and holds a high bar without you in the room.

We hire against our values, and we'll interview you against them too. Here's what they look like in this seat:

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 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.