Watney
Senior Research Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
About the job
Develop and evaluate robot-learning methods, then deploy successful models to Watney’s live fleet of autonomous robots.
What you'll do
- Choose training methods as the model roadmap advances.
- Design evaluations to test whether results generalize beyond benchmarks.
- Work with the training and serving infrastructure team to deploy promising results to the fleet.
What they ask for
- Experience taking a training idea from a paper or prototype to a result that holds up outside a benchmark.
- Experience with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or a similar method for control.
- Ability to write production ML code, such as Python and PyTorch.
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Advance robot learning from imitation learning toward broader generalization; select training methods, evaluate generalization, and deploy working models to robots.
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