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Software Engineer - Perception

Watney Robotics· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Backend/data infrastructure-focused role building the perception data engine and related evaluation & telemetry infrastructure for autonomous robotic systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Perception Data Engine: Architect and optimize scalable off-robot data pipelines capable of ingesting, parsing, and managing petabyte-scale video and sensor streams for auto-annotation and localization tasks.
  • Build Continuous Evaluation Infrastructure: Design and implement deterministic simulation, regression testing, and evaluation loops to rigorously benchmark perception performance before edge deployment.
  • Scale Annotation & Feature Extraction: Develop high-throughput pipelines that orchestrate multimodal data fusion, automated labeling, and feature extraction to constantly mine high-signal training examples from the field.
  • Drive Quality Metrics & Monitoring: Establish end-to-end telemetry systems and observability frameworks to track model regression, data drift, and perception accuracy across live operational environments.

Qualifications

  • Have experience building high-throughput data platforms, large-scale distributed streaming systems, or infrastructure for autonomous robotics.
  • Have a proven track record designing scalable data pipelines and storage solutions tailored for heavy multimodal media formats (high-frame-rate video, unstructured telemetry).
  • Bring deep experience building closed-loop testing infrastructure, regression frameworks, or automated metric tracking engines for highly complex, non-deterministic software systems.
  • Exhibit a high technical competency in geometric computer vision fundamentals, 3D spatial data handling, or metadata orchestration for machine learning workflows.
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Watney Robotics

Watney develops autonomous robotics systems to operate datacenter and supercomputing infrastructure.

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