Software Engineer
About this role
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, full stack engineers own our software ecosystem end-to-end, meaning you will regularly cross the boundary between high-throughput backend infrastructure, enterprise customer platforms, and highly interactive web frontend interfaces. As we rapidly scale production deployments and robotics capabilities, you will work on the design and development of our off-robot systems.
What You’ll Do
Core Platforms: Drive end-to-end development for video-heavy annotation platforms, VR teleoperation interfaces, and secure customer portals.
Off-Robot Systems: Build cloud infrastructure, load balancing, and high-throughput pipelines to ingest and process petabyte-scale telemetry streams in real time.
You May Be a Good Fit If You:
Have 2+ years of full-stack experience contributing to scalable cloud infrastructure, media/video streaming pipelines, or complex rendering systems.
Experience with or interest in Rust, or have strong C++/functional programming fundamentals
Have experience operating software at the intersection of physical hardware, complex simulations, or autonomous vehicles.
We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team. At Watney Robotics, we welcome people of all backgrounds and identities, and we make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential. If you’re passionate about robotics but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply!
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Company at a glance
Watney is a company building a robot workforce to bridge the gap between physical infrastructure and human labor, with the aim of becoming the supplier of all manual labor. It began with a focus on datacenters and is collaborating with some of the largest hyperscalers and neoclouds to automate critical, dexterous tasks. The company has closed a $21 million seed round, with investors including Conviction, A*, and Abstract. Watney’s leadership team brings diverse backgrounds, ranging from a former GSM for the iPhone and head of supply chain at Zoox to experts in cobots, Zipline, Worldcoin’s founding engineering, and high-performance EV design from ETH Zurich.
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