Robotics Test & Debug Engineer

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. Our robots range from a semi-humanoid with frontier dexterity approaching the human form to workhorses that do 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

Our semi-humanoid robot moves into production in early 2027.

We're hiring a Robotics Test & Debug Engineer to make sure every robot that leaves our Watertown factory works.

You'll be the production team's first line of defense: when a robot fails, you find the root cause and fix it. You'll also build the test platforms that catch failures early.

What You'll Own

• Robot debug: take failing robots and subassemblies to root cause
• First line of defense: resolve floor issues fast and escalate design problems with clear data
• Bench testing: design subassembly fixtures and hardware-in-the-loop rigs
• Factory acceptance testing: build the end-of-line test every robot passes before it ships
• Test automation: write Python test sequences, with results logged to ION and our internal platform
• Closing the loop: turn recurring failures into new tests and process fixes

Your First Year

• Bench tests live for our next-generation robot's critical subassemblies before the 2027 ramp
• An automated FAT that every robot passes, with results traced to serial number
• Most floor issues resolved within Production Engineering, without an Engineering escalation
• Recurring failures trending down month over month

What You Bring

• BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer or Mechatronics Engineering
• Hands-on root-cause debug of robots or electromechanical systems
• You've built test fixtures, bench rigs or HIL systems that others used
• Python for test automation and data analysis
• Strong electrical

skills

• schematics, scopes, meters, CAN
• Comfortable on the production floor, working alongside technicians

Nice to Have

• Experience bringing a new robot or hardware product into production
• Humanoid, mobile robot or robot arm experience
• Embedded firmware or Linux experience
• MES/PLM experience (ION or similar)
• Daily use of AI tools like Claude to build tools and analyze data
• Why Tutor?

Whether you’re designing robots, closing deals, running deployments, or creating the processes that help us scale, your work doesn’t sit on a shelf. It shows up on real production floors, making physical work safer and more affordable.

Our team is driven by curiosity and a genuine love of building. Everyone here takes real ownership, learns fast, and holds a high bar while having each other’s backs. If you love hard problems and creating things that didn’t exist before, you’ll fit right in.

• Exempt, full-time, on-site in Watertown, MA. Final pay within the range is based on experience and skills.