Hardware Systems Integration Engineer (Robotics)

Our robots are built from hardware we design and hardware we buy, and many of our suppliers are in China. We’re looking for an engineer to evaluate that hardware, integrate it into our robots, and work directly with the suppliers who make it.

You will test new components, find where they fall short, and work with suppliers’ engineers, in Mandarin, to get the changes we need. You will be based in Watertown and spend a large part of your time at supplier sites. As this work grows, there is room to hire and lead other engineers doing it., * Evaluate new hardware: Test arms, actuators, sensors and other components from suppliers against what our robots need

• Integrate and test: Bring new hardware up on our robots, find where it falls short, and see the problems through to a fix
• Work with suppliers’ engineers: Spend time at their sites, agree on changes, and keep the work moving between visits
• Carry our requirements: Make sure the people building for us understand what we need and why
• Build prototypes: Run small prototype builds and bring what you learn back to the design team
• Travel: Spend roughly a third to half of your time in China

• Experience developing hardware with suppliers or factories in China: You have taken a product from prototype toward production with them
• Fluent Mandarin and English: You can hold a technical discussion and write a specification in both
• Broad hands-on skill: You can debug a system that has mechanical, electrical and firmware parts, and you know when to bring in a specialist
• Comfortable in a lab: You build test setups, take measurements, and write up what you found
• Willing to travel: Long and frequent trips are part of the job

• Experience with robot arms, actuators or motor drives
• Experience hiring or leading engineers
• Time spent living and working in China

$150,000 - $300,000 a year

We believe general-purpose, generally-intelligent robots will be built in our lifetimes. Robots will work in our factories, move our goods, walk on our streets and eventually be in our homes. To build that future, research and deployment must work in lockstep: real-world operation must make the technology better and better technology must make deployment easier. We’re looking for the thinkers, builders, and researchers who want to be part of that loop.

As an AI robotics company that deploys its inventions directly into the facilities that need them, on state-of-the-art hardware, every line of code written at Tutor has a direct impact on the global, physical economy.