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Senior Research Engineer

Watney Robotics· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Research-engineering role focused on deciding training directions, designing generalization evaluations, and deploying promising results to a live fleet of autonomous robotic systems. Path from imitation learning toward broader generalization with staged model validation before progressing.

Responsibilities

  • Decide which training method to try next as the model roadmap advances.
  • Design the evaluation that tells you whether a result generalizes or just fits the case it was built for.
  • Turn a promising result into something that runs on the fleet, working with the team that owns training and serving infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • Have taken a training idea from a paper or a prototype to a result that held up outside a benchmark.
  • Have worked with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or a similar method for control, and can describe how you knew it was working or wasn't.
  • Are comfortable when no method is settled yet and you are one of the people deciding it.
  • Write production ML code (Python, PyTorch, etc.).

Skills

Required:Production ML codingImitation learning
Nice to have:Reinforcement learning
Last updated Sep 19, 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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