Member of Technical Staff - Senior Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)

Tutor Intelligence • San Francisco, CA

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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, sharing learned experience to improve their capabilities. The company is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, and its team designs and manufactures hardware, trains models, works with customers, and maintains a fleet across the United States.

Tutor is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of core software systems. The role focuses on owning architecture, setting technical direction, and building scalable, reliable platforms that support machine learning, robotics, and operations. The engineer will work across backend services, data and ML infrastructure, internal tools, and customer-facing systems, collaborating with robotics, hardware, and operations teams. Robotics is part of the domain, but the primary focus is creating high-leverage software systems that help the company operate more effectively.

Requirements

• Strong programming ability and experience building large, production software systems.
• Proven track record of owning and evolving complex systems over time.
• Experience working across backend, infrastructure, and application layers.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making pragmatic architectural tradeoffs.
• Clear communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions and align teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with ML platforms, data pipelines, or ML-adjacent infrastructure.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
• Familiarity with robotics or hardware-integrated systems; this is not required.
• Startup experience or experience building systems from zero to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core software systems across the company's stack.
• Own architecture, set technical direction, and build scalable, reliable platforms supporting machine learning, robotics, and operations.
• Work across backend services, data and ML infrastructure, internal tools, and customer-facing systems.
• Collaborate with robotics, hardware, and operations teams.
• Build software systems that make the company faster and more effective.

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.

What This Job Offers

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