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Head of Autonomy

Teleo · Palo Alto, CA

Posted Oct 8, 2026 · full time

Pay range listed by Teleo: USD 250,000–300,000 per year

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Teleo, a Havoc company, is a robotics company that transforms construction heavy equipment, including loaders, dozers, excavators, and trucks, into autonomous robots for commercial and defense applications. Our technology enables a single operator to supervise and control multiple machines simultaneously, delivering significant productivity gains while improving operator safety and comfort. Teleo was founded by a team of experienced technology leaders who previously led the development of Lyft's Self-Driving Car program and Google Street View. Teleo recently announced its merger with Havoc AI, a fast-growing defense technology company developing coordinated fleets of autonomous maritime vessels. This is a unique opportunity to join a team building technology with real-world impact. You will work on cutting-edge 100,000-pound autonomous robots and engineer complex systems at the intersection of hardware, software, robotics, and AI.

The Role The Head of Autonomy owns Teleo's autonomy stack end to end and leads the team that builds it. You will lead the engineering team across perception, simulation, controls, path planning, fleet orchestration, learning-based methods (RL, imitation learning, and VLA-style models), and MLOps. This is a senior player-coach role. You will set the technical direction, make the architecture calls, and stay close enough to the code and the field data to review designs in depth. …

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