Controller
At a glance
Mid-level Accounting role at Tutor Intelligence. Watertown · full-time · $160,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run accounting and month-end close, overseeing the general ledger, payables, receivables and payroll
- Build internal controls and financial policies, then manage compliance procedures and audit coordination
- Track inventory, bills of materials, landed costs, work orders, warranties and fixed assets
- Create and monitor accounting agents to automate accounting work, and prepare lender covenant and borrowing-base reports
What you bring
- Six to ten years in accounting and finance, combining public accounting and industry experience if possible
- Strong U.S. GAAP knowledge and direct ownership of a monthly close from start to finish
- Company-side experience through an external audit and accounting work in manufacturing, hardware or another inventory business
- Fluency with ERP and MES systems, plus experience using and building AI workflows
Who this fits
This suits a hands-on senior accounting leader who wants to build the function while still doing the work. You’ll report to the Head of Finance and partner often with Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Engineering. The role is onsite in Watertown.
From the employer
About Tutor
We believe robots will be the next chapter in making physical labor safer and more affordable. But, nearly nine out of ten American factories and warehouses don’t have a single robot. Tutor Intelligence is changing that.
We build robots that go straight into real factories and warehouses, to do real work, with real impact. Our robot Cassie does back-breaking work, moving boxes, pallets, and bulk goods for family-owned manufacturers to some of the largest brands in the world. Our robot Sonny does handwork, using two arms to achieve human-like dexterity in picking and packing. Every robot learns on the job, and each one we deploy makes the next one more capable, more affordable, and faster to put to work.
Founded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, we do it all in-house: the robotics hardware, the machine learning, and the field deployment and service. 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
We're hiring our first Controller.
Tutor builds robot workers and we build them ourselves — off our own line in Watertown, into factories and warehouses across the country, maintained by our own field team. That gives us a manufacturer's balance sheet inside a fast-moving, venture-backed company: inventory, BOMs, landed cost, work orders, warranty, fixed assets. You would own it outright.
You would report to the Head of Finance and be the senior accounting leader. You will work often with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Engineering, and sit close to the financing and lender work as it happens.
This is a player-coach role. We're looking for a builder who still makes things, not an operator who needs a large org to function. And we're an AI company: we expect you to build an AI-native accounting organization where an elite team produces at unusual scale.
What You'll Own
- Lead all accounting and month-end close activities
- Oversee general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll
- Develop and maintain internal controls, financial policies, and compliance procedures
- Manage the audit process. Support and coordinate all internal and external audit activity
- Develop and monitor accounting agents to streamline various accounting operations
- Lender reporting — covenant tracking and borrowing-base packages
Requirements
- 6-10 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, with a combination of public accounting and industry experience strongly preferred
- Strong technical accounting foundation and demonstrated knowledge of U.S. GAAP
- Experience in hardware, manufacturing, or another inventory-carrying business
- You have personally owned a monthly close end to end
- You have been on the company-side through an external audit
- Fixed assets, depreciation, and lease accounting (ASC 842)
- ERP and MES fluency
- Experience using and building AI workflows
- CPA
- Startup experience, particularly a company between roughly 100 and 300 people
- You took a venture-backed company through its first audit
- Duty, tariff, and country-of-origin exposure on imported components
- Debt covenant and borrowing-base reporting
- Experience with Rillet, Ramp, or Rippling
Nice to Haves (Zero or More)
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.