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Watney

Staff Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure

San Francisco
Level
Staff
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 2 October 2026.

About the role

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Our Mission

Expand human ambition in the physical world.

Critical infrastructure is constrained by labor shortages, hazardous working conditions, and operational complexity. Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems that increase the speed and capacity of buildout, starting with data centers.

About the Role

At Watney, ML Infrastructure engineers turn data collected from a live fleet of robots into better models. The fleet produces large volumes of video and telemetry data from real work in the field, and making that data trainable is one of the hardest systems problems at the company.

As we continue to scale, these systems will require larger training runs with more data, expanded clusters, and optimal GPU utilization.

What You’ll Do

  • Own training and inference infrastructure.
  • Build the data pipelines that these training runs depend on.
  • Make experiments fast to launch and reproduce.
  • Contribute to our core training code

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You May Be a Good Fit If You:

  • Have built ML infrastructure that carried real production training runs.
  • Have scaled distributed training systems.
  • Strong experience with Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Have experience identifying and troubleshooting GPU performance bottlenecks in large-scale training environments

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We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team. At Watney Robotics, we welcome people of all backgrounds and identities, and we make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential. If you’re passionate about robotics but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply!

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

TensorFlow

Rare in Watney's other 15 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

PyTorch · Python

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

60% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Watney's standard text, folded away below.

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The team: Machine Learning

This role is one of 5 open in Machine Learning.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Machine Learning (4 of 5), Python (4 of 5), PyTorch (4 of 5)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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