Engineering Manager, Production Engineering

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. Our robots range from a semi-humanoid with frontier dexterity approaching the human form to workhorses that do 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 You lead our Production Engineering team: the engineers and technicians who take robot designs from prototype to mass production. You report to the Head of Manufacturing.

Your job is to design the system and the machine that build our robots: the processes, test systems, tooling and change control that let Manufacturing produce high-quality robots at a competitive cost, even as designs change fast.

This is a player-coach role. You set direction, assign the work and grow the team, and you stay hands-on. You are in design reviews, at the bench with a scope, and on the floor debugging a robot that needs to ship.

Why This Role Matters Every robot we ship has to be built right, tested right and delivered on time, while the design behind it keeps improving. That only works with a strong team and a production system built for change. Much of that system doesn't exist yet. You build it, and the team that runs it.

What You'll Own - Lead the team: Set priorities and assign work across production engineers, test and bring-up engineers, technicians and contract engineers. Hold clear technical standards and review the team's work.

- Grow the team: Hire, mentor and develop engineers. Shape a team structure that scales as production grows.

- Prototype to production: Own how new designs move from prototype through pilot builds into volume production, with the processes, work instructions, tooling, fixtures and station design to support them.

- Test and bring-up: Own the test strategy across the line, from subassembly bench tests to station tests, robot bring-up and final acceptance, so defects are caught early and never reach a customer.

- Engineering change: Represent Manufacturing in design change reviews and own how changes are cut in on the line without losing quality or output.

- Design for manufacturing: Partner with hardware engineering so designs arrive buildable, testable, serviceable and cost-effective.

- Recurring failures: Use data from the line and the field to drive recurring problems to root cause and permanent fixes.

- Stay hands-on: Debug electrical, mechanical and system-level issues yourself when a robot needs to ship.

What Success Looks Like In your first few months: You've worked the floor with the team and earned their trust. Every engineer knows their priorities and what they own. The top recurring build failures have clear root causes and fixes underway, and you've laid out a plan for test, change control and the team.

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