Controller

Job description

### 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](https://tutorintelligence.com/sonny) is a semi-humanoid robot with frontier dexterity approaching the human form. [Cassie](https://tutorintelligence.com/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 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 **Nice to Haves (Zero or More)** - 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