Full-Time
Staff Embedded Engineer
Rust
Watney
11-50 employees
Autonomous robotics for datacenter infrastructure maintenance
No salary listed
San Francisco, CA, USA
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- The candidate should have shipped production code to millions of devices.
- The candidate should have experience with electromechanical systems or cameras and optics, electrically, mechanically, or in software.
- The candidate should have professional experience with Tock OS, Ferrocene, Hubris, or a similar system.
- The candidate should have working knowledge of electrical engineering and either field-oriented control or radio frequency.
- The candidate should have strong knowledge of central processing unit instruction set architectures.
- Work with contract manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers on specification discovery, board development, and embedded software updates across the hardware stack.
- Bring up and manage automated hardware-in-the-loop integration tests across embodiments.
- Work on pathOS, the generalized embedded Rust operating system supporting mainboard printed circuit boards and actuators.
- Work with the machine learning and mechanical teams to prototype and validate new sensors.
Watney builds autonomous robotic systems that maintain and operate datacenter and supercomputing infrastructure for hyperscalers. The robots perform physical maintenance and monitoring tasks, either teleoperated or autonomous, across large-scale facilities, reducing the need for human presence. The technology uses high-performance runtimes, low-latency cross-continental control, and robust inference to coordinate dexterous robots. Its goal is to enable significant compute scaling by removing manual workload and plugging automation into complex infrastructure, differentiating itself by targeting cloud-scale operators rather than consumer robotics.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Watney raised $21 million seed funding in 2025 from Conviction, Abstract, and A*.
- It is hiring teleoperation, deployment, and robotics roles in San Francisco during 2026.
- Datacenter labor shortages and breakfix demand directly support automation budgets from hyperscalers.
What critics are saying
- Watney has one cited use case; hyperscaler concentration makes any contract loss existential by 2027.
- Seed-stage execution risk stays high until production fleets replace prototypes and narrow demos.
- Competitors can copy datacenter robotics claims faster than Watney proves durable reliability at scale.
What makes Watney unique
- Watney sells autonomous robotics for datacenter buildout and breakfix, not general-purpose warehouse automation.
- Its pitch combines teleoperation, dexterous manipulation, and low-latency control across thousands of miles.
- Watney claims months-long deployments without failure and a live 7,000-mile teleoperated robot fleet.
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