USD 100,000–300,000 per year

Robotics Infrastructure Engineer

United StatesUnited States·WatertownFull-timemid
EngineeringDevOps & InfrastructureInfrastructure EngineerDevops EngineerInfrastructure & Cloud
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Overview

Robotics Infrastructure Engineer: Systems, Infrastructure & Reliability About the Role We build robots that run 24/7 in production environments. We're looking for a hands-on engineer to own the reliability, infrastructure, and developer tooling that keeps our fleet running and our engineering…

Key Responsibilities

Own robot-side software (Python): Maintain the on-robot codebase that orchestrates arms, cameras, sensors, and I/O. Debug production hardware/software failures and ship fixes fast Build and maintain infrastructure as code: Manage cloud…

Requirements Summary

3+ years of Python in a systems context — not web/ML Python, but the kind where you deal with processes, hardware I/O, async, and real-time constraints Strong Linux systems knowledge: Memory management, device management, systemd, containers,…

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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.

We build robots that run 24/7 in production environments. We're looking for a hands-on engineer to own the reliability, infrastructure, and developer tooling that keeps our fleet running and our engineering team fast. You'll split your time between robot-side systems work, cloud infrastructure, and building automation that multiplies the team's output.

A significant portion of this role involves working with AI coding agents. You'll direct autonomous agents to diagnose CI failures, triage production issues, run automated security and compliance checks, and execute multi-step engineering tasks. Knowing how to scope work for an agent, review its output critically, and build tooling that agents can use effectively is as important as writing the code yourself.

  • Own robot-side software (Python): Maintain the on-robot codebase that orchestrates arms, cameras, sensors, and I/O. Debug production hardware/software failures and ship fixes fast
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code: Manage cloud infrastructure — identity and access management, CI/CD credentials, secrets, container registries, cluster autoscaling — using declarative configuration and reproducible builds
  • Drive build system and packaging migrations: Own the transition of robot software packaging to reproducible, hermetic build systems. Maintain machine images, dev environments, and deployment pipelines
  • Build simulation and testing infrastructure: Develop end-to-end simulation systems that validate robot behavior without physical hardware — camera projection, kinematics, placement validation, fleet-wide calibration
  • Develop and operate AI-powered engineering automation: Build autonomous agents that run nightly CI triage, security audits, infrastructure compliance checks, and code quality sweeps. Design the interfaces and instructions that make agents effective at real engineering work
  • Improve observability and health monitoring: Instrument robot software with metrics and structured telemetry. Build alerting that catches problems before humans notice them
  • Work across the stack: Touch frontend, backend, protobuf definitions, deployment tooling, and cloud services as needed. No part of the system is someone else's problem
  • 3+ years of Python in a systems context — not web/ML Python, but the kind where you deal with processes, hardware I/O, async, and real-time constraints
  • Strong Linux systems knowledge: Memory management, device management, systemd, containers, networking, kernel tuning
  • Infrastructure as code experience: Declarative infrastructure and configuration management tools. You've managed IAM, CI runners, secrets, and machine images programmatically
  • Experience with real hardware: Robot arms, depth cameras, grippers, force/torque sensors, pneumatics, or similar
  • CI/CD ownership: You've not just used CI — you've owned it. Runner infrastructure, flaky test triage, build caching, GPU-enabled pipelines
  • Comfort with AI coding agents: You've used tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot Workspace, or similar to do real engineering work — not just autocomplete, but directing agents through multi-step debugging, refactoring, and infrastructure tasks. You understand their failure modes and know when to trust vs. verify
  • Strong debugging instincts: You can go from a vague production symptom to root cause across hardware, OS, network, and application layers
  • Bias toward shipping over perfecting: You fix, monitor, iterate. Your commit history has more fix: than feat: and you're proud of that
  • NixOS or reproducible build system experience
  • Experience building or operating autonomous engineering agents/bots
  • Robotics simulation (kinematics, camera models, physics)
  • gRPC / Protocol Buffers
  • Managed network infrastructure, VPNs, overlay networks
  • Time-series databases and observability stacks
  • This is a high-autonomy, high-output role. On a typical day you might direct an AI agent to triage overnight CI failures while you debug a production robot issue, then spend the afternoon migrating a package to a new build system. You'll write a lot of code, but you'll also write a lot of prompts — and the best candidates will see those as the same skill.

    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.

    What We Offer

    ~1 min read

    We take care of our team so they can do their best work. At Tutor, you’ll get:

    ✓Fully employer-covered health insurance, so you’re protected without the premium.
    ✓A managed 401(k) to help you plan for the future.
    ✓Generous time off: unlimited PTO and all federal holidays off for full-time salaried employees, and 16+ days of accrued paid time off plus 1.5x pay on federal holidays for hourly employees.
    ✓Regular in-office meals and team social events throughout the year.

    Location & Eligibility

    Where is the job
    Watertown, United States
    On-site at the office
    Who can apply
    US
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    United States

    About this job

    Pay per year
    $100,000–$300,000 a year
    16% above the $172,100 median for Devops Engineer jobs on Jobera (1,086 salaries).
    Who can apply
    United States
    Posted
    201 days ago
    Employer
    has 61 open jobs on Jobera.

    Listing Details

    Posted
    April 10, 2026
    First seen
    April 11, 2026
    Last seen
    October 29, 2026

    Posting Health

    Days active
    201
    Repost count
    0
    Trust Level
    42%
    Scored at
    October 29, 2026

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    Robotics Infrastructure EngineerUSD 100,000–300,000 per year