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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. Our robots range from a semi-humanoid with frontier dexterity approaching the human form to workhorses that do 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
You lead our Production Engineering team: the engineers and technicians who take robot designs from prototype to mass production. You report to the Head of Manufacturing.
Your job is to design the system and the machine that build our robots: the processes, test systems, tooling and change control that let Manufacturing produce high-quality robots at a competitive cost, even as designs change fast.
This is a player-coach role. You set direction, assign the work and grow the team, and you stay hands-on. You are in design reviews, at the bench with a scope, and on the floor debugging a robot that needs to ship.
Why This Role Matters
Every robot we ship has to be built right, tested right and delivered on time, while the design behind it keeps improving. That only works with a strong team and a production system built for change. Much of that system doesn't exist yet. You build it, and the team that runs it.
What You'll Own
- Lead the team: Set priorities and assign work across production engineers, test and bring-up engineers, technicians and contract engineers. Hold clear technical standards and review the team's work.
- Grow the team: Hire, mentor and develop engineers. Shape a team structure that scales as production grows.
- Prototype to production: Own how new designs move from prototype through pilot builds into volume production, with the processes, work instructions, tooling, fixtures and station design to support them.
- Test and bring-up: Own the test strategy across the line, from subassembly bench tests to station tests, robot bring-up and final acceptance, so defects are caught early and never reach a customer.
- Engineering change: Represent Manufacturing in design change reviews and own how changes are cut in on the line without losing quality or output.
- Design for manufacturing: Partner with hardware engineering so designs arrive buildable, testable, serviceable and cost-effective.
- Recurring failures: Use data from the line and the field to drive recurring problems to root cause and permanent fixes.
- Stay hands-on: Debug electrical, mechanical and system-level issues yourself when a robot needs to ship.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months: You've worked the floor with the team and earned their trust. Every engineer knows their priorities and what they own. The top recurring build failures have clear root causes and fixes underway, and you've laid out a plan for test, change control and the team.
In your first year: Robots move through bring-up and final test with little rework. Design changes reach the line cleanly. New designs arrive production-ready. The team is growing, owns its work and holds a high bar without you in the room.
Required
- Bachelor's in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer or Mechatronics Engineering. A Master's is a plus.
- Proven experience leading engineers: setting priorities, assigning work, reviewing output and developing people. A formal manager or technical lead title both count. We care about what you did with the team you had.
- Deep hands-on hardware experience designing, integrating and debugging complex electromechanical systems. You still find root cause yourself.
- Strong electrical fundamentals. You read schematics, use scopes and meters, and isolate problems across power, boards, harnesses, sensors, actuators and communication interfaces.
- Experience taking hardware from prototype through new product introduction into volume production.
- Experience building production test systems: fixtures, bring-up, end-of-line or automated test.
- Hands-on design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test work with design engineering.
- Experience managing engineering change on an active production line.
- You use AI tools daily in your engineering work and can show us how.
Preferred
- Built or scaled a production or manufacturing engineering team at a hardware startup.
- Robotics or industrial automation experience.
- Cost reduction work: should-cost, value engineering, or BOM and labor reduction.
- Python for test automation, diagnostics or data analysis.
- Experience with MES, traceability or change control systems.
- Contract manufacturer or supplier bring-up.
Why Join
- Build the team and the system. You shape how we build robots and who builds them.
- Lead without leaving the hardware. You manage a team and still get your hands dirty.
- Real hardware, real stakes. Your fixes run on robots working at customer sites.
- AI is how we work. You have the tools and the backing to automate what most factories still do by hand.
- Direct line to leadership. Work side by side with hardware, software and deployment teams.
How We Work: Our Values in This Role
We hire against our values, and we'll interview you against them too. Here's what they look like in this seat:
- Love of the Game. You lead from the bench, not from a slide deck.
- Gumption. When a robot won't ship, you and your team are already on the floor finding out why.
- Beginner's Mindset. You question how we build and test today, and you change your mind fast when the data says to.
- Belief in Each Other. You give your engineers real ownership, help them grow, and earn the hardware team's respect by being right and being fair.
- Keep Moving Forward. You find the fix that keeps the line moving today, then make it permanent.
- Customer Obsession. Every shortcut on the line shows up at a customer site. You and your team build it right.
This range is base salary. This role also includes equity. Final compensation depends on experience, skills and the level determined through the interview process. This role is onsite in Watertown, MA.
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 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.
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. Our robots range from a semi-humanoid with frontier dexterity approaching the human form to workhorses that do 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
You lead our Production Engineering team: the engineers and technicians who take robot designs from prototype to mass production. You report to the Head of Manufacturing.
Your job is to design the system and the machine that build our robots: the processes, test systems, tooling and change control that let Manufacturing produce high-quality robots at a competitive cost, even as designs change fast.
This is a player-coach role. You set direction, assign the work and grow the team, and you stay hands-on. You are in design reviews, at the bench with a scope, and on the floor debugging a robot that needs to ship.
Why This Role Matters
Every robot we ship has to be built right, tested right and delivered on time, while the design behind it keeps improving. That only works with a strong team and a production system built for change. Much of that system doesn't exist yet. You build it, and the team that runs it.
What You'll Own
- Lead the team: Set priorities and assign work across production engineers, test and bring-up engineers, technicians and contract engineers. Hold clear technical standards and review the team's work.
- Grow the team: Hire, mentor and develop engineers. Shape a team structure that scales as production grows.
- Prototype to production: Own how new designs move from prototype through pilot builds into volume production, with the processes, work instructions, tooling, fixtures and station design to support them.
- Test and bring-up: Own the test strategy across the line, from subassembly bench tests to station tests, robot bring-up and final acceptance, so defects are caught early and never reach a customer.
- Engineering change: Represent Manufacturing in design change reviews and own how changes are cut in on the line without losing quality or output.
- Design for manufacturing: Partner with hardware engineering so designs arrive buildable, testable, serviceable and cost-effective.
- Recurring failures: Use data from the line and the field to drive recurring problems to root cause and permanent fixes.
- Stay hands-on: Debug electrical, mechanical and system-level issues yourself when a robot needs to ship.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months: You've worked the floor with the team and earned their trust. Every engineer knows their priorities and what they own. The top recurring build failures have clear root causes and fixes underway, and you've laid out a plan for test, change control and the team.
In your first year: Robots move through bring-up and final test with little rework. Design changes reach the line cleanly. New designs arrive production-ready. The team is growing, owns its work and holds a high bar without you in the room.
Required
- Bachelor's in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer or Mechatronics Engineering. A Master's is a plus.
- Proven experience leading engineers: setting priorities, assigning work, reviewing output and developing people. A formal manager or technical lead title both count. We care about what you did with the team you had.
- Deep hands-on hardware experience designing, integrating and debugging complex electromechanical systems. You still find root cause yourself.
- Strong electrical fundamentals. You read schematics, use scopes and meters, and isolate problems across power, boards, harnesses, sensors, actuators and communication interfaces.
- Experience taking hardware from prototype through new product introduction into volume production.
- Experience building production test systems: fixtures, bring-up, end-of-line or automated test.
- Hands-on design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test work with design engineering.
- Experience managing engineering change on an active production line.
- You use AI tools daily in your engineering work and can show us how.
Preferred
- Built or scaled a production or manufacturing engineering team at a hardware startup.
- Robotics or industrial automation experience.
- Cost reduction work: should-cost, value engineering, or BOM and labor reduction.
- Python for test automation, diagnostics or data analysis.
- Experience with MES, traceability or change control systems.
- Contract manufacturer or supplier bring-up.
Why Join
- Build the team and the system. You shape how we build robots and who builds them.
- Lead without leaving the hardware. You manage a team and still get your hands dirty.
- Real hardware, real stakes. Your fixes run on robots working at customer sites.
- AI is how we work. You have the tools and the backing to automate what most factories still do by hand.
- Direct line to leadership. Work side by side with hardware, software and deployment teams.
How We Work: Our Values in This Role
We hire against our values, and we'll interview you against them too. Here's what they look like in this seat:
- Love of the Game. You lead from the bench, not from a slide deck.
- Gumption. When a robot won't ship, you and your team are already on the floor finding out why.
- Beginner's Mindset. You question how we build and test today, and you change your mind fast when the data says to.
- Belief in Each Other. You give your engineers real ownership, help them grow, and earn the hardware team's respect by being right and being fair.
- Keep Moving Forward. You find the fix that keeps the line moving today, then make it permanent.
- Customer Obsession. Every shortcut on the line shows up at a customer site. You and your team build it right.
This range is base salary. This role also includes equity. Final compensation depends on experience, skills and the level determined through the interview process. This role is onsite in Watertown, MA.
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 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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Who's Hiring
- Tesla17
- Lockheed Martin6
- Meta5
- BNY4
- The Raymond Corporation4
Top Industries Hiring
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Science & Research
- Chemicals & Materials
- Electronics & Hardware
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in production engineering manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in industrial, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering or a related field
- 5 or more years of hands-on production or manufacturing engineering experience
- Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams in a production environment
- Proficiency with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience with ERP and MES systems such as SAP, Oracle, or comparable platforms
- Familiarity with FMEA, SPC, and root cause analysis tools applied to production processes
Tips for Your Production Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify process improvements on your resume
Production engineering managers are evaluated on measurable outcomes, so replace vague claims with numbers. Show cycle time reductions, yield improvements, or cost savings you drove. Hiring teams screen for candidates who can demonstrate engineering impact at scale, not just manage teams.
Highlight your new product introduction experience
NPI ownership is one of the most searched qualifications in production engineering manager postings. If you have led a product from prototype to mass production, call that out explicitly in your resume summary and in dedicated bullet points under each relevant role.
Filter openings by production method or industry vertical
Your experience in high-mix low-volume manufacturing does not transfer identically to high-volume continuous production. Search for roles that match your specific production environment so your background aligns with the day-to-day challenges the hiring team is trying to solve.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists production engineering manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for a technical case study in interviews
Many hiring panels ask production engineering manager candidates to walk through a real failure analysis or a process redesign scenario. Practice explaining your diagnostic approach, the cross-functional stakeholders you involved, and how you measured whether the fix held over time.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base salary
Production engineering manager offers often include performance bonuses tied to yield targets or throughput goals. Before accepting, clarify how those metrics are defined, how often they are measured, and what percentage of the target bonus has been paid out historically.
Production Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most production engineering managers?
The companies hiring the most production engineering managers right now include Tesla, Lockheed Martin, and Meta, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Nevada, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is particularly strong at companies scaling domestic manufacturing capacity or ramping new product lines.
How many production engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 37% of production engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, which is lower than most engineering management roles because the position typically requires hands-on floor presence. The sub-areas most compatible with remote arrangements are process documentation, supplier engineering coordination, and continuous improvement program management.
How do you become a production engineering manager?
Most production engineering managers start as production or manufacturing engineers, then take on project ownership for a major process improvement or new product launch. From there, building people management experience, often by leading a small team informally before a formal promotion, is the most common path. A working knowledge of Lean or Six Sigma tools accelerates the transition into management-level roles.
Can you get hired as a production engineering manager without direct management experience?
Yes, but you need to show leadership through project ownership rather than headcount. Candidates who have led cross-functional process improvement projects, coordinated contractor teams, or served as the technical point of contact for a production line launch are regularly hired into their first formal management role. Frame your resume around decisions you owned, not just tasks you contributed to.
What does the production engineering manager interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen focused on your production background and team leadership experience, followed by a technical interview where you walk through a past process problem and how you solved it. A panel interview with operations, quality, and supply chain stakeholders is common at mid-size and larger manufacturers, and some companies close with a plant tour or a case study exercise.
Where can I find and apply to production engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to production engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your production background and experience level, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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