Senior Robotics Bring-Up & Test Technician

Tutor; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Regular in-office meals

Ownership of sign-off

Room to grow with the team

Job summary

Tutor builds AI-powered robots and deploys them into warehouses and factories across the country. We're a small team where every person has real impact, and we work with technical excellence and respect.

Tutor offers health insurance, a 401(k), unlimited PTO, and sign-off ownership for shipped robots. Our team seeks hands-on technicians in the Watertown area who can power up, verify, and bring complete machines through final test, including long-running acceptance tests and detailed

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting and repairing complete electromechanical machines: robots, industrial automation, field equipment, or similar
• Experience commissioning or bringing machines up, not only assembling them or running checklists
• Comfort reading schematics, wiring diagrams, and assembly drawings
• A sharp eye for wiring quality: crimps, ferrules, pins, strain relief, routing
• A methodical approach: form a hypothesis, test it, find the cause, verify the fix
• Clear notes, including knowing the difference between a confirmed cause and a guess
• Flexibility to work extended hours during production pushes

Responsibilities

• Inspect incoming robots for wiring workmanship and perform safe first power-up
• Bring up every subsystem: DC power and battery, CAN communications, arm and controller, mobile base and drives, sensors, vacuum, and safety circuits
• Load and verify software, firmware, calibrations, and configurations
• Run functional and final acceptance tests, including multi-hour continuous runs
• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, and configuration failures to root cause, repair, and retest
• Log failures, repairs, and results in our manufacturing system
• Prep robots for shipment: final checks, battery charge, arm stow, and paperwork
• Flag recurring issues to Production Engineering so they're fixed at the source
• Help train other technicians and build the troubleshooting guides the next person will use

Skills

Electromechanical repair

Machine commissioning

Schematic reading

Multimeter usage

Wiring quality inspection

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Team training

Tools

Oscilloscope

CAN bus tools

Linux basics

Job description

Tutor builds AI-powered robots and deploys them into warehouses and factories across the country. We're a small team where every person has real impact, and we work with technical excellence and respect.

Tutor offers health insurance, a 401(k), unlimited PTO, and sign-off ownership for shipped robots. Our team seeks hands-on technicians in the Watertown area who can power up, verify, and bring complete machines through final test, including long-running acceptance tests and detailed