Senior Mechanical Engineer, Research Hardware

Tutor Intelligence; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tutor Intelligence, headquartered in Watertown, MA, is advancing robotics to put advanced automation into everyday operations. Our research team explores the full stack of robot capability, from data collection to model training, using 100+ robots and a network of teleoperators to push the frontier of robot intelligence.

You’ll own the mechanical subsystems that enable robot manipulation and data collection, including carrying mechanisms, end effectors, fixtures, and sensor assemblies, guiding

Qualifications

• Experience with mechanical subsystems in robotics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the mechanical subsystems that enable robot manipulation and data collection, including carrying mechanisms, end effectors, fixtures, and sensor assemblies, from uncertain requirements through fabrication, integration, validation, and repeatable builds.
• Collaborate with researchers and research engineers to translate novel techniques into robot products that can be deployed at scale.

Job description

About Tutor

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.

The Role

Tutor's research team pushes the frontier of robot capability across the full stack. Researchers have access to 100+ robots for data collection and evaluation, a massive network of teleoperators, scaled hardware and manufacturing infrastructure, and the ability to collect real world data at enormous scale. Our work covers the complete lifecycle of real‑world data generation and model training from initial behavior cloning to post‑training with supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning. And researchers and research engineers work closely with applied engines to develop novel techniques into robot products that can be deployed at scale.

You’ll own the mechanical subsystems that make robot manipulation and data collection work, carrying mechanisms, end effectors, fixtures, and sensor assemblies from uncertain requirements through fabrication, integration, validation, and repeatable builds.