Staff Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Watney's standard text
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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Watney's standard text
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.
Read against Watney's other open postings on this site.
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
- Senior Research Engineer posted Sep 16
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Sep 16
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer posted Sep 16
- Software Engineer - Perception posted Jul 13
From the team and dates on Watney's own job board.
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