Senior Robotics Test & Integration Technician (Technician III)

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

The Role

A robot rolls off our assembly line. It has never been powered on. You're the one who brings it to life.

You'll own each robot from first power-up through final test and ship: every subsystem working, every result documented, every fault found and fixed at its root. When something doesn't work (and some won't), you'll track it down with a meter and a schematic, fix it, and prove it stays fixed.

This isn't a pass/fail checklist job. If you've commissioned, repaired, or brought up complete machines (robots, packaging lines, AGVs, CNC, or similar), this is your kind of work.

What You'll Work On

Our robot is an autonomous palletizer: a collaborative arm on a battery-powered mobile base, with vacuum tooling, sensors, and safety circuits. Each one you release goes straight into a working warehouse. You're the last set of hands before the customer.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You Bring

• 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, and confidence with a multimeter


• 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

Nice to Have

• Military electronics, avionics, or field service background


• Cobot, AMR/AGV, or battery-powered equipment experience


• Oscilloscope or CAN bus tools


• Basic Linux command line or networking

Why Tutor

• $38–$50/hr, based on experience


• Fully employer-paid health insurance


• Managed 401(k)


• Unlimited PTO and holidays


• Regular in-office meals


• Real ownership: your sign-off is what ships


• A low-ego team that's scaling fast, with room to grow alongside it

About Tutor

Tutor builds AI-powered robots and deploys them into warehouses and factories across the country. We're motivated by atoms, not electrons: every robot we build does real work in the physical economy. We're a small team where every person has real impact, and we work with technical excellence and respect.

Tutor is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.