Robotics Electrical Engineer - Power, Sensing & Control

Tutor Intelligence, Inc.; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

In-office meals

Job summary

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. in Watertown, MA is seeking a MoTS Electrical Engineer to own electrical subsystems for robot hardware, sensing, and control. You will lead design from requirements to PCB fabrication, bring-up, and reliability validation.

You will collaborate with mechanical, software, and research teams to keep experiments productive and reproducible, delivering clear documentation and transferable interfaces.

Qualifications

• Owned a complex electrical subsystem, including PCB design through bring-up and integration.
• Strong analog/digital fundamentals, power electronics, and signal integrity.
• Experience using measurement tools to test hypotheses and diagnose failures.
• Experience connecting sensors or actuators to microcontrollers and embedded compute.
• Ability to reason about grounding, noise, protection, thermal limits, and failures.
• Ability to document designs and measurements for others.

Responsibilities

• Define electrical requirements, architecture, interface contracts, and validation plans for robot subsystems.
• Design schematics and PCB layouts; select components and manage prototyping, fabrication, assembly, and revisions.
• Design power distribution, grounding, protection, connectors, and harnesses for motors, sensors, and embedded compute.
• Integrate sensors, actuators, and motor controllers, including embedded interfaces and bring-up firmware.
• Use bench measurements and repeatable tests to isolate faults and diagnose failures.
• Validate electrical behavior on the robot and resolve integration risks with mechanical and software colleagues.
• Deliver design files, BOMs, harness documentation, firmware interfaces, and acceptance tests; improve reliability after handoff.

Skills

PCB design

Power electronics

Signal integrity

Instrumentation

Embedded systems integration

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Bench power supplies

CAN/SPI/I2C

Job description

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. in Watertown, MA is seeking a MoTS Electrical Engineer to own electrical subsystems for robot hardware, sensing, and control. You will lead design from requirements to PCB fabrication, bring-up, and reliability validation.

You will collaborate with mechanical, software, and research teams to keep experiments productive and reproducible, delivering clear documentation and transferable interfaces.