EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Systems Integration Engineer, Hardware (Mandarin)

Watertown, MAOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Hardware Systems Integration
Mandarin
AI robotics
hardware design

Nice to have

builders
thinkers

Role summary

An AI robotics company is seeking a Hardware Systems Integration Engineer with Mandarin language skills. This role involves working with both designed and purchased hardware, with a significant focus on suppliers in China. The engineer will contribute to the development and deployment of AI-powered robots, impacting the global physical economy. The company culture emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration, and empowering team members to make a real impact.

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. Sonny is a semi-humanoid robot with frontier dexterity approaching the human form. Cassie does 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

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.

This is an engineering role. You will measure suppliers' hardware on the bench, review their designs, find where they fall short, and work with their engineers, in Mandarin, on the fix. 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.

What You'll Do

Evaluate new hardware: Characterize arms, actuators, sensors and other components on the bench, including torque, stiffness, backlash, thermal behavior and electrical noise

Review suppliers' designs: Read their drawings and schematics, find the weak points, and propose changes

Integrate and test: Design the mounts, harnesses and interfaces that put new hardware on our robots, then test until it holds up

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

What We're Looking For

Depth in mechanical or electrical engineering: You have designed hardware that shipped, and you can explain the design decisions you made

Working ability in the other discipline: A mechanical engineer who can read a schematic and probe a board, or an electrical engineer who can read a drawing and reason about loads and tolerances

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

Strong test and measurement habits: You build test setups, take measurements, and write up what you found

Willing to travel: Long and frequent trips are part of the job

Nice to Have

Experience with robot arms, actuators or motor drives

Firmware or embedded experience

Experience hiring or leading engineers

Time spent living and working in China

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.

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