Controller

Tutor; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health & dental insurance

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Team meals

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Tutor, a Watertown-based AI hardware company, is hiring its first Controller to own all accounting and close processes in a hands-on, builder role.

You will report to Head of Finance and collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Engineering, sitting near financing and lender work; own GL, AP, AR, payroll, internal controls and audits.

This player-coach role emphasizes building an elite, AI-native accounting function with meaningful equity and a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of accounting and finance experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and technical accounting.
• Experience in hardware/manufacturing or inventory-heavy business.
• Experience owning a monthly close end-to-end.
• Experience with external audits on the company side.
• Familiarity with depreciation, ASC 842, fixed assets.
• ERP and MES fluency.

Responsibilities

• Lead all accounting and month-end close activities.
• Oversee general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll.
• Develop and maintain internal controls, financial policies, and compliance procedures.
• Manage the audit process. Support and coordinate all internal and external audit activity.
• Lender reporting — covenant tracking and borrowing-base packages.

Skills

Public accounting experience

Industry experience

U.S. GAAP

Tools

ERP

MES

Job description

We're hiring our first Controller.

Tutor builds robot workers and we build them ourselves — off our own line in Watertown, into factories and warehouses across the country, maintained by our own field team. That gives us a manufacturer's balance sheet inside a fast-moving, venture-backed company: inventory, BOMs, landed cost, work orders, warranty, fixed assets. You would own it outright.

You would report to the Head of Finance and be the senior accounting leader. You will work often with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Engineering, and sit close to the financing and lender work as it happens.

This is a player-coach role. We're looking for a builder who still makes things, not an operator who needs a large org to function. And we're an AI company: we expect you to build an AI-native accounting organization where an elite team produces at unusual scale.

What You'll Own

• Lead all accounting and month-end close activities
• Oversee general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll
• Develop and maintain internal controls, financial policies, and compliance procedures
• Manage the audit process. Support and coordinate all internal and external audit activity
• Lender reporting — covenant tracking and borrowing-base packages

Requirements

• 6-10 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, with a combination of public accounting and industry experience strongly preferred
• Strong technical accounting foundation and demonstrated knowledge of U.S. GAAP
• Experience in hardware, manufacturing, or another inventory-carrying business
• You have personally owned a monthly close end to end
• You have been on the company-side through an external audit
• Fixed assets, depreciation, and lease accounting (ASC 842)
• ERP and MES fluency

Nice to Haves (Zero or More)

• CPA
• Startup experience, particularly a company between roughly 100 and 300 people
• You took a venture-backed company through its first audit
• Duty, tariff, and country-of-origin exposure on imported components
• Debt covenant and borrowing-base reporting
• Experience with Rillet, Ramp, or Rippling

Tutor Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Fully employer-covered health and dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Regular in-office meals and team events
• A collaborative, low-ego environment where people are trusted to do their best work