Senior Research Engineer, Robotics

Job overview

The Senior Research Engineer, Robotics role is onsite in San Francisco, CA, with stated pay of $180,000–$315,000 per year. Tutor Intelligence develops robot hardware and artificial intelligence, with a mission to bring robots into real-world work for the common good. The engineer turns research ideas into experiments on physical robots and makes results reliable and comparable. The work connects research, robot-side software, evaluation, and applied engineering so promising techniques can progress toward deployment.

What you'll do

• Build and run robot policy experiments
• develop evaluation task suites, metrics, and tools
• build robot-side inference, control, safety, and logging software
• improve teleoperator intervention and data feedback
• debug across perception, control, hardware, and models
• collaborate with research scientists and applied engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior research engineer

robotics

san francisco ca

tutor intelligence

full-time

$180,000–$315,000 per year

python

physical robots

robot policy experiments

evaluation metrics

robot control

teleoperation

health insurance

401(k)

unlimited pto for salaried employees

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Employer-covered health insurance, managed 401(k), unlimited PTO and federal holidays off for full-time salaried employees, in-office meals, and team social events.

Why this role

Works with a research team that has access to more than 100 robots, teleoperators, and scaled hardware and manufacturing infrastructure.

About the employer

Tutor Intelligence is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.