Teleo
Teleo2mo ago
$180,000 – $230,000/yr

Senior Autonomy Controls Engineer – Learning-Based Control

United StatesUnited States·Palo AltoFull-Timesenior
OtherControls Engineer
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Overview

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.

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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.


About the Role
 
Own the transition from manually tuned MPC-based vehicle control to learning-driven control policies that adapt across vehicles with minimal human intervention, while maintaining safety and interpretability.
  • Practical understanding of vehicle dynamics and system identification
  • Practical experience in generating test plans, collecting real-world data, and using real-world data for system identification of plant models for automatic control.
  • Design and implement learning-based control approaches (imitation learning, reinforcement learning, hybrid MPC + learning)
  • Reduce dependence on hand-tuned control parameters through data-driven methods
  • Integrate learned controllers into the existing vehicle control stack safely and incrementally
  • Define interfaces between classical control (MPC, PID, state estimation) and learning-based components
  • Work closely with the Principal Controls Engineer to translate classical control insights into learning-friendly formulations
  • Establish validation criteria for learned control policies before real-vehicle deployment
  • 2-3 years of experience with experimental data collection and data analysis to estimate parameters of a plant model used for automatic control
  • Strong software engineering skills in C, C++, or Python (production-quality code)
  • Deep understanding of modern robotics control systems
  • Experience with learning-based control or policy optimization for real-world systems
  • Comfort working close to hardware and real-time constraints
  • Reinforcement learning or imitation learning for control
  • Model-based RL, residual learning, or hybrid MPC architectures
  • Control under uncertainty and partial observability
  • Debugging and validating control systems on physical platforms
  • Experience deploying learned controllers on vehicles or mobile robots
  • Familiarity with safety-constrained learning methods
  • Background spanning both classical and modern control theory
  • Location & Eligibility

    Where is the job
    Palo Alto, United States
    On-site at the office
    Who can apply
    US
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    United States

    Listing Details

    Posted
    February 13, 2026
    First seen
    March 26, 2026
    Last seen
    May 13, 2026

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    May 13, 2026

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    TeleoSenior Autonomy Controls Engineer – Learning-Based Control$180k–$230k