About the role
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.
Mission
Own the integration of Teleo's autonomy and vehicle subsystems into a reliable, cohesive platform. Bridge the gap between independently developed components — perception, controls, networking, hardware interfaces — and make them work together on real hardware.
Core Responsibilities
- Develop features across the full vehicle software stack: sensor interfaces, communication layers, diagnostics, and system services
- Integrate and validate subsystems from multiple teams into a unified, working platform
- Build and maintain backend infrastructure and tooling that support vehicle operations
- Design and implement inter-process and inter-system communication for vehicle and operator systems
- Contribute to OTA update pipelines and deployment workflows in collaboration with the full-stack team
- Write unit tests and help establish integration testing practices across the codebase
- Participate in remote support rotations, including occasional early/late hours
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering in C/C++ and Python
- Strong computer systems fundamentals: OS internals, memory management, process lifecycle, IPC
- Hands-on embedded Linux experience at the application level
- Comfortable reading schematics and understanding hardware interfaces at a conceptual level
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple subsystems and codebases
- Comfortable working on-site in Palo Alto, CA
Strong Experience With
- Linux systems programming: sockets, serial, device interfaces, systemd, debugging tools
- CAN bus protocols and serial communication
- Building and integrating multi-process systems with complex inter-component dependencies
- Debugging at the system level: logs, traces, packet captures, core dumps
- Working in cross-functional environments alongside firmware, perception, and controls teams
Nice to Have
- ROS experience
- Networking fundamentals: VLANs, Layer 2/3 debugging, packet analysis
- Rust
- Experience bootstrapping test infrastructure: CI integration testing, hardware-in-the-loop setups
- Early-stage startup experience — comfortable with broad scope and fast iteration
Teleo is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All qualified people are encouraged to apply.