Senior Electrical Engineer, Research Hardware

Team: R&D - Research

Location: Watertown, MA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

What you'll work on

• Define electrical requirements, architecture, interfaces, and validation plans for robot subsystems.
• Design schematics and PCB layouts; select components; manage prototyping, fabrication, assembly, and revisions.
• Design power distribution, grounding, protection, connectors, and harnesses for motors, sensors, and embedded compute.
• Integrate sensors, actuators, and motor controllers, including bring-up firmware as needed.
• Isolate faults with bench measurements and repeatable tests, including intermittent noise, power, and communication failures.

Requirements

• You have owned a complex electrical subsystem, including designing a PCB yourself and taking it through fabrication, bring-up, and integration.
• Strong analog and digital fundamentals, power electronics, and signal integrity.
• Confidence with oscilloscopes, multimeters, bench supplies, and other measurement tools.
• Experience connecting sensors or actuators to microcontrollers, embedded compute, or control software.
• Experience with cabling and communication interfaces such as USB, CAN, Ethernet, and EtherCAT.

Nice to haves

• Robotics, motor control, force or tactile sensing, or synchronized sensor acquisition.
• Embedded C or C++, Python test tooling, and board-level interfaces such as SPI, I2C, or UART.
• EMI troubleshooting, harness design, and design for manufacturing.

Why Tutor?

Whether you’re designing robots, closing deals, running deployments, or creating the processes that help us scale, your work doesn’t sit on a shelf. It shows up on real production floors, making physical work safer and more affordable.

Our team of 160+ is driven by curiosity and a genuine love of building. Everyone here takes real ownership, learns fast, and holds a high bar while having each other’s backs. If you love hard problems and creating things that didn’t exist before, you’ll fit right in.

Benefits

We take care of our team so they can do their best work. At Tutor, you’ll get:

• Fully employer-covered health insurance, so you’re protected without the premium.
• A managed 401(k) to help you plan for the future.
• Generous time off: unlimited PTO and all federal holidays off for full-time salaried employees, and 16+ days of accrued paid time off plus 1.5x pay on federal holidays for hourly employees.
• Regular in-office meals and team social events throughout the year.

As Tutor grows, so will our benefits. We’re continuing to invest in ways to support our team at work and beyond.

Tutor Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.