Engineering Manager, Platform & Infrastructure

About the role

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 At Tutor, AI agents do most of the engineering work. They write the code, run the tests, triage CI, deploy to robots, and operate the tools the company runs on. That only works if the infrastructure underneath them is built for it: environments they can stand up, systems they can observe, tooling they can call, context they can read. We are looking for the person who will lead the team that builds and supports that infrastructure.

The people who use this infrastructure are the engineers sitting next to you, and they do not file tickets and wait. When something in the commons breaks or gets in their way, they are on it immediately, often with an agent, and they expect you and your team to be there with them. That is the culture you would be joining and leading: users who operate what they use, and a central team that makes that possible rather than standing between them and the systems.

You are responsible for the commons serving the whole. Shared infrastructure at Tutor is used by every team, and every team pulls it in its own direction. Your job is to keep it working for all of them: to decide what the center owns and what stays with the teams, to make the call when two teams need different things, and to be the accountable person when the shared layer fails.

This is a senior role with organization-wide scope, and you set the direction for the function. We expect you to be hands-on. How much you build yourself and how much you lead others will depend on who you are, and the team grows as the work requires it, with you hiring it.