Engineering Manager, Robotics Hardware

Tutor Intelligence•Watertown, MA

About The Position

Tutor Intelligence is a robotics research and deployment company that designs and manufactures robot hardware and develops artificial intelligence for robots. The Engineering Manager will lead a hardware team as Tutor expands its hardware organization and develops a new robot while the current generation continues to ship. Teams own robot mechanisms, electronics subsystems, research platforms, or new versions of products already in the field. The manager is responsible for the team, schedule, and design decisions, and partners with manufacturing from the earliest concepts to ensure designs can be built. The role is hired at Senior or Staff level, determined through the interview process. Tutor’s R&D employees hold the internal title Member of Technical Staff (MoTS), and work may evolve as organizational needs change. The posted compensation information includes multiple salary ranges: $180,000–$420,000 overall, with Senior at $180,000–$315,000 and Staff at $240,000–$420,000; a separate compensation section states a base salary range of $190,000–$300,000 depending on experience.

Requirements

  • Have been a strong engineer before moving into management and have led a team of several engineers.
  • Have designed and shipped electromechanical products.
  • Have taken a design into manufacturing and experienced its subsequent operation.
  • Continue to read engineering drawings.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with robots or another product integrating mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software.
  • Experience with products built in volume.
  • Experience shipping one generation of a product while designing the next.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, lead, and develop a team of hardware engineers.
  • Take a subsystem from concept through design, prototyping, testing, and release to manufacturing.
  • Run team design reviews and make the decisions resulting from them.
  • Coordinate with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and field service on the team's shipped products.
  • Work with software and research teams that depend on the team's hardware, and whose work the hardware depends on.

Benefits

  • Fully employer-covered health insurance.
  • A managed 401(k).
  • Unlimited PTO and all federal holidays off for full-time salaried employees.
  • For hourly employees, 16 or more days of accrued paid time off and 1.5x pay on federal holidays.
  • Regular in-office meals and team social events throughout the year.
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