# Head of Autonomy at Teleo

- Company: Teleo
- What the company does: Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.teleo.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-08
- Apply by: 2026-11-22
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/teleo/c534c928-5f8f-41a3-a200-58f9816cefc9?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/teleo-head-of-autonomy/

## About 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- M.S. or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years building autonomy or robotics software, with at least 5 years managing engineering teams, including managers or technical leads
- Shipped autonomy that runs on physical robots or vehicles in real operating conditions, not only in simulation
- Hands-on depth in at least two of: perception, planning, controls, simulation, or learning-based control, and working fluency across the full stack
- Practical experience with learning-based methods (imitation learning, RL, or large pretrained models) and a clear view of where they beat classical approaches and where they don't
- Built or run data and evaluation infrastructure that tied model changes to field performance

Tags: Engineering

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