watney

Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems designed to increase the speed and capacity of infrastructure buildout, starting with data centers. The company addresses critical infrastructure challenges such as labor shortages, hazardous working conditions, and operational complexity. Its technology focuses on automating physical work through advanced robotics and teleoperations systems.

In the domain of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Watney utilizes a live fleet of robots that generate large volumes of video and multimodal sensor data from real-world operations. Machine learning engineers process this data to build, train, and evaluate models covering perception, planning, navigation, and manipulation. The technical work involves dataset curation, training experiments, imitation learning, and deploying low-latency inference systems to production.

To support these engineering efforts, Watney is building its team with roles across mechanical engineering and machine learning. The open positions include a Senior Mechanical Engineer for Robotics, a Senior Research Engineer, a Machine Learning Engineer, and a Staff Machine Learning Engineer. These positions span senior and staff levels and are located onsite at the company headquarters in San Francisco.