# Controls Engineer (Robotics) at Tutor Intelligence

- Company: Tutor Intelligence
- What the company does: Tutor builds generally capable robots and puts them to work. Delivered in days not years, from $14 an hour. Backed by AI Grant and USV.
- Company website: https://www.tutorintelligence.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Watertown, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/tutorintelligence/19cf5cea-3da1-44b3-99e4-fd791c4f3bd3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tutor-intelligence-controls-engineer-robotics/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- Real-time control experience on physical systems: Robot arms, vehicles, aircraft, or similar. You have written control code that moved hardware and handled its failures
- Experience in a mission-critical codebase: You have written and organized a large amount of code where mistakes had physical consequences, and you know what that requires of structure, testing, and review
- Comfortable with the physics: Dynamics, torque, inertia, stopping distances, contact. You can reason about what the arm will do
- Strong systems software: C++ and Python or similar, real-time behavior on Linux, and safety-critical code kept separate from the rest
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing: You have built or used a rig that put real hardware in the loop with software under test

Tags: R&D - Software