Robotics Controls Engineer - Safety-Critical Arms

Tutor Intelligence; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

In-office meals

Job summary

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. designs and deploys robotic systems for factories and warehouses. The Controls Engineer will own safety-critical control code, build HIL test benches, and maintain rigorous validation as software and hardware evolve.

You will work on robust, real-time control loops within a safety-focused, cross-disciplinary team. Founded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, Tutor combines robotics hardware, ML, and field deployment.

Qualifications

• Real-time control experience on physical systems with safe operation.
• Experience in a mission-critical codebase where mistakes had physical consequences.
• Comfortable with physics: dynamics, inertia, stopping distances and contact.

Responsibilities

• Own the safety-critical control code for robot arms: limits, stop behavior, collision response and monitoring.
• Work on the control loop: timing, stability and failure modes from motion command to drives.
• Organize code to be trusted: keep safety-critical parts small, separated, tested and reviewable.
• Build hardware-in-the-loop testing: bench and CI with real arms and safety hardware.
• Keep evidence current: stopping-time measurements and tests updated as code/hardware changes.
• Document the design: decisions, limits and rationales for other engineers.

Skills

Real-time control

Large codebase

Physics intuition

Linux Real-time

C++

Python

Tools

HIL testing rigs

EtherCAT

Job description

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. designs and deploys robotic systems for factories and warehouses. The Controls Engineer will own safety-critical control code, build HIL test benches, and maintain rigorous validation as software and hardware evolve.

You will work on robust, real-time control loops within a safety-focused, cross-disciplinary team. Founded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, Tutor combines robotics hardware, ML, and field deployment.