# Staff Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure

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, ML Infrastructure engineers turn data collected from a live fleet of robots into better models. The fleet produces large volumes of video and telemetry data from real work in the field, and making that data trainable is one of the hardest systems problems at the company. As we continue to scale, these systems will require larger training runs with more data, expanded clusters, and optimal GPU utilization. What You’ll Do Own training and inference infrastructure. Build the data pipelines that these training runs depend on. Make experiments fast to launch and reproduce. Contribute to our core training code . You May Be a Good Fit If You: Have built ML infrastructure that carried real production training runs. Have scaled distributed training systems. Strong experience with Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow. Have experience identifying and troubleshooting G

- **Id**: 1296991
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/watney-staff-software-engineer-ml-infrastructure>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-13T21:26:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:45:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 121
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1624
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Robotics, Construction Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 3812884
- **Name**: Watney
- **Domain**: watney.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/watney-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.167
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 108
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 193000
- **Max usd**: 383000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 890

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 121

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T09:43:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.861
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 120
- **Expected fill days**: 108
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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