Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)