# Lead Perception Engineer 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: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/teleo/3dc3fe77-57a9-4a4a-afb7-30fc4a3becb0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/teleo-lead-perception-engineer/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering