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, research engineers decide what our models learn to do next, and a live fleet of robots is the only test that counts. The plan is a staged path from imitation learning toward broader generalization, with each stage expected to yield a working model before the next one starts.

You will help set that path: which method to try, and whether a result actually holds up outside a benchmark.

What You'll Do

• 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 tr