Head of Hardware Engineering

Tutor Intelligence • Watertown, MA

10d

About The Position

Tutor Intelligence is hiring a Head of Hardware Engineering to lead the team that designs and builds its robots. Mechanical, electrical, firmware and embedded, and manufacturing engineering report to this role. The Head of Hardware Engineering sets the hardware roadmap with the CTO, grows the team, and is responsible for ensuring every shipped robot works as designed and that production scales at the required rate.

The hardware organization is expected to grow substantially in size and in the range of products it supports. This role builds the teams needed for that growth, hires their leaders, and ensures the organization operates effectively as it expands. The position reports to the CTO.

Tutor builds robots for use in factories and warehouses. Its robots include Cassie, which moves boxes, pallets, and bulk goods, and Sonny, which performs picking and packing with two arms. Tutor develops its robotics hardware, machine learning, field deployment, and service in-house.

Requirements

• Have led and grown a hardware engineering organization to 50 or more people.
• Have shipped a complex electromechanical product in volume through the organization.
• Have led mechanical, electrical, and firmware or embedded engineers.
• Be able to hire and assess mechanical, electrical, and firmware or embedded engineers.
• Have owned manufacturing engineering, or worked closely enough with it to build a manufacturing engineering team covering process, test, fixtures, and design for manufacturing.
• Have developed managers who lead teams under you.
• Have worked closely with a technical founder or CTO.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in robotics, actuators, or motion control.
• Experience leading engineers in more than one country.
• Experience taking a product from first prototype to production at rate.
• Experience working with contract manufacturers and overseas suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the hardware engineering organization responsible for designing and building robots.
• Set the hardware roadmap in partnership with the CTO.
• Grow the hardware organization and build teams to support its expanding product range.
• Hire leaders for teams across mechanical, electrical, firmware and embedded, and manufacturing engineering.
• Ensure shipped robots work as designed and that production achieves the required rate.
• Develop managers who lead teams within the organization.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed