Senior Software Engineer, Internal Systems (Robotics)

Tutor Intelligence, Inc.; City of Watertown (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to own the company’s internal systems and the data model that underpins them.

You’ll work on PLM/MES tooling, shape the shared schema, and guide AI coding agents in building and maintaining a broad set of internal software used across manufacturing and deployment. Ideal candidates have senior software experience, enjoy operations on the factory floor, and can bridge between engineering, deployment, and field teams to keep systems

Qualifications

• Senior software experience is required.
• Experience with operations on manufacturing floors and deployment calls is desirable.
• Ability to work with AI coding agents and internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own the company's internal systems and the underlying data model.
• Improve tools and data schemas as the company scales.
• Collaborate with AI agents to build and maintain internal software surfaces.
• Engage with on-site manufacturing and field teams to support robots.

Job description

The Company

We believe general-purpose, generally-intelligent robots will be built in our lifetimes. Robots will work in our factories, move our goods, walk on our streets and eventually be in our homes. To build that future, research and deployment must work in lockstep: real-world operation must make the technology better and better technology must make deployment easier. We're looking for the thinkers, builders, and researchers who want to be part of that loop.

As an AI robotics company that deploys its inventions directly into the facilities that need them, on state-of-the-art hardware, every line of code written at Tutor has a direct impact on the global, physical economy.

Our Culture

We believe that something truly special can happen when talented, motivated people work together; at Tutor, every member of our team is empowered to have real impact in everything that they do. We're characterized by both technical excellence and next-level collaboration and respect.

About the Role

Tutor designs and builds its robots, manufactures them, deploys them into customer facilities, maintains them, and teaches them new work. Each of those functions runs on software we wrote: the systems that track each robot, its site, its owner, its service history, and its current job. That software, and the shared data model underneath it, is what this role owns.

Today that ownership is spread across many people. Maintenance, manufacturing, tutoring, deployment, and sales each have tools that were built by whoever needed them first, and the definitions they share live in a schema that nobody owns end to end. We're looking for a senior engineer to take responsibility for the company's internal systems and the data model they run on, and to improve both as the company grows.

We build our own tools. We wrote our own PLM, and we are customizing our own MES rather than buying one off the shelf. When a function needs software we usually write it, use it ourselves, and keep improving it, and we plan to keep doing that as we grow. This role owns the systems that habit produces.

This is a role for someone with senior software experience who likes operations. You'll spend time on the manufacturing floor, on deployment calls, and with the people who maintain robots in the field, because the systems you own are theirs to use. You'll also spend a lot of time in the schema, since a change to what a \"robot\" or a \"job\" means touches every function at once.

A significant portion of this role involves working with AI coding agents. Internal tools are a good fit for agents, and you'll direct them to build and maintain a large surface of internal software, review their output critically, and design the interfaces and data that make them effective.

About Our Roles & Titles

At Tutor, we believe great engineers and researchers are defined by what they build and the impact they have — not where they sit in an org chart or what title they have. Therefore, everyone in our R&D org holds the title Member of Technical Staff (MoTS). Our job postings use standard titles so you can find us, but if you join Tutor, you'll be a MoTS — with a level that is determined through the interview process.

That also means we hire people, not slots. Work at Tutor evolves every quarter, and we set the expectation of flexibility from day one — it's common for people to start on one thing and shift to another based on where the team needs them most. A high technical bar across the board is what makes that flexibility possible: it's what allows people to contribute meaningfully whatever problem they take on.