Senior Technical Program Manager

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.

Tutor is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to own program management for the Cassie workstream. Cassie is our robot worker for pallets and cases: we have many Cassie robots in production at customer sites today and the next products built on the same platform are in development now. The workstream is about 15-20 engineers across software and hardware. This role will report to an engineering manager.

We’re looking for a candidate who has run programs long enough to know which parts of the job are not the interesting part - and has ideas for how to automate it. Chasing status, reconciling three trackers that disagree, tracking dependencies - all need to get done, but ideally not by a person. We’re looking for someone who has watched AI tools get good enough to do some of that grunt work and has a vision for how a program should run with automation, updating as tools increase in efficacy. We want the person who will build that automation while operating the program.

Tutor builds robot workers and deploys them directly into the factories and warehouses that need them. The Cassie workstream's output is measured in robots that keep running on a customer's line and in new products that reach production on schedule. That means one team carries a fleet in production and a platform in development at the same time, with software, hardware, manufacturing, deployment, and customer teams all collaborating. This role will own the integrated plan, the operating cadence, the risks, the cross-team dependencies, and the honest weekly picture of where things stand.

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.