Member of Technical Staff - Senior Robotics Software (San Francisco, CA)
About The Position
Tutor Intelligence is a robotics research and deployment company that builds robot hardware and artificial intelligence. Its robots are manufactured at scale and operate as a network, combining fleet-wide learned experience to train increasingly capable AI. The company was founded at MIT and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, with a full-stack team spanning hardware design and manufacturing, model training, customer work, and fleet maintenance. As a Member of Technical Staff, you will lead the design and implementation of critical robotics software across motion planning, real-time control, perception and optimization systems, tooling, and robot infrastructure. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, drive system architecture across the stack from embedded systems to cloud services, and champion best practices in software and robotics engineering. The role focuses on building systems that affect the physical world and solving technical challenges in robotics and automation at scale.
Requirements
- Exceptional programming skills with deep experience across multiple languages and systems.
- Track record of designing and owning large, complex software systems.
- Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
- Comfort working across the stack from low-level robot control to cloud services.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Enthusiasm for solving hard problems that bridge software and robotics.
Nice To Haves
- Proven experience with Python and prior experience programming robots, for example with ROS or other robotics frameworks.
- Experience with manipulation, motion planning, optimization, or perception.
- Experience with infrastructure and developer tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Background in hardware/software integration and real-time systems.
- Experience scaling robotics systems in production environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of robotics software across motion planning, real-time control, perception, optimization systems, tooling, and robot infrastructure.
- Influence technical direction.
- Mentor other engineers.
- Drive system architecture across the stack from embedded systems to cloud services.
- Champion best practices in software and robotics engineering.
Benefits
- Fully employer-covered health insurance.
- Managed 401(k).
- Unlimited PTO and all federal holidays off for full-time salaried employees.
- Regular in-office meals and team social events throughout the year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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