Senior Research Engineer, Infrastructure

Team: R&D - Research

Location: Watertown, MA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

What you'll work on

• Own a major system supporting robot data collection and experimentation, and keep it reliable.
• Build robot-side and backend services, data pipelines, and tools that reduce operator effort and raise experiment throughput.
• Make system health, data completeness, sensor timing, and experiment progress observable, and turn failures into actionable diagnostics.
• Make deployment, configuration, testing, recovery, and rollback repeatable.
• Diagnose incidents across device interfaces, Linux, networking, concurrency, and storage.

Requirements

• You have owned a substantial software system through design, deployment, operation, and difficult debugging.
• Strong Python, including tests, concurrency, and service interfaces.
• Practical Linux and networking, and experience running services in production.
• An understanding of distributed-system failure modes, data integrity, and recovery from partial failures.
• Experience building observability and using it to improve reliability.

Nice to haves

• Robotics, device fleets, teleoperation, edge computing, or synchronized sensor pipelines.
• C++ or Rust, containers, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, or ML deployment.
• Operator tools and experiment platforms.

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.