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Teleo

Robot type
Construction
Location
Palo AltoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jun 4, 2026
Full-time

Lead Perception Engineer

Job description

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.

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…

Job responsibilities

  • Re-use, adapt and extend existing perception algorithms (such as those commonly used in AV applications) to be applied to Teleo's operational domain and develop novel multi-modal perception algorithms
  • (Re-)Train models as Teleo's operational domain evolves
  • Develop auto-annotation and auto-labeling tools using SoTA methods, such as VLMs
  • Define evaluation protocols that correlate with on-ground performance
  • Drive active learning: select the right data
  • Integrate tightly with MLOps for continuous deployment

Job requirements

  • M.S. or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years in applied ML with large-scale datasets
  • Strong Python + PyTorch
  • Experience shipping perception or ML systems into production
  • Systems thinker: understands data, models, infra as one system
  • Auto-annotation techniques like VLM-based labeling
  • Model evaluation beyond single metrics (failure modes, edge cases)
  • Perception tasks: detection, segmentation, depth, tracking

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