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# Mechanical Engineer, Vehicle Integration & Product Design at Teleo

- **Company:** Teleo
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/teleo/e69fa1b7-c57f-4365-8e8b-b86d3fd38f10

## Job description

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.

## Role Summary

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will design and integrate vehicle-specific brackets, mounts, and mechanical interfaces for Teleo’s autonomy retrofit system across a wide range of heavy equipment platforms. You will also contribute to core product improvements that make our system more reliable, manufacturable, and easier to install in the field. We are looking for an engineer who is hands-on, rigorous, and detail-oriented. Someone who is not afraid to work directly on heavy construction equipment, take measurements in the field, and turn those observations into fast, well-thought-out, robust designs. You should enjoy solving real-world mechanical problems, iterating quickly, and taking ownership from design through installation. This is a prime opportunity to join Teleo at a time of rapid growth, with a direct impact on how we scale our technology across new vehicle platforms and sites. It is also an excellent opportunity to grow into broader, multidisciplinary, system-level integration work.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design vehicle-specific brackets, mounts, and mechanical interfaces for sensor and compute integration across diverse heavy equipment platforms

- Support integration of enclosures, sensors, and compute hardware onto new vehicle platforms using established architecture standards

- Contribute to core product improvements, including enclosures, harness routing hardware, and mounting fixtures, based on field feedback and DFM/DFA

- Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, and BOMs for mechanical components

- Support environmental qualification testing, including vibration, shock, and thermal testing

- Perform fit-checks and installation validation on physical vehicles, including occasional on-site field work

- Troubleshoot field mechanical integration issues and iterate designs based on manufacturing and field feedback

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field

- 2+ years of mechanical engineering experience, ideally in vehicle, automotive, or heavy equipment integration

- Experience designing brackets, mounts, or structural components using sheet metal, machined parts, or weldments

- Proficiency in CAD (Onshape, SolidWorks, or similar) and working knowledge of GD&T

- Familiarity with DFM/DFA principles

- Hands-on experience with physical hardware, fixtures, and prototypes

- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

- Willingness to travel ~10% within the US

- Comfortable climbing onto heavy construction equipment for measurements, fit-checks, and installation validation

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with harness routing, connectors, or environmental sealing (IP-rated enclosures)

- Experience with heavy equipment, automotive, or off-highway vehicles

- Exposure to environmental or vibration/shock testing

- Experience with PLM/PDM systems and engineering change management

- Experience taking a design from prototype through to production

- Experience with structural analysis/FEA or vibration analysis

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.

## About Teleo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Teleo converts existing fleets of heavy equipment into semi-autonomous robots that operators can control remotely, improving safety and productivity in construction and mining.
- **Entity Type**: Private, acquired by HavocAI in March 2026 (now an operating subsidiary)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Vinay Shet (CEO) and Rom Clement (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Automation Machinery Manufacturing, Robotics, Construction Technology
- **Target Customers**: B2B, serving construction companies, mining operators, and heavy equipment fleet owners
- **Mission/Purpose**: To revolutionize heavy equipment operations by bringing supervised autonomy to existing machines, making worksites safer and more productive while addressing labor shortages

## Products & Services
- **Supervised Autonomy Retrofit Kit**: A hardware/software system that retrofits existing heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, etc.) with teleoperation and semi-autonomous capabilities. Operators control machines from a remote desk, switching between machines and job sites instantly.
- **Remote Operations Platform**: A software platform enabling operators to manage multiple machines from a safe, comfortable remote workstation.
- **Analytics**: Provides operational performance analytics to improve fleet efficiency.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (acquired by HavocAI in 2026)
- **Total Funding**: $28.2M – $29.8M (conflicting reports) across 4 rounds, including a $150K accelerator round and multiple Series A rounds led by UP.Partners
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $1.8M (pre-acquisition estimate); employee count of 43–56 (varying sources)
- **Notable Investors**: UP.Partners (lead), Trucks Venture Capital, F-Prime Capital
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Acquired by HavocAI in March 2026, signaling strategic value in defense/autonomy space
  - Named to BuiltWorlds 2026 Robotics Top 50 in Automated Machinery & Related Solutions – Earthmoving & Excavation
  - Active job postings (3 open roles as of recent data)
  - LinkedIn followers: 4,441 (growing ~1%/month, ~19%/year)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Retrofit Approach**: Works with existing heavy equipment fleets rather than requiring new machines, lowering adoption barriers for customers.
- **Supervised Autonomy**: Combines remote operations with autonomous capabilities — machines handle mundane tasks autonomously, operators step in for complex tasks — allowing one operator to manage multiple machines.
- **Patented Safety & Control Systems**: Multiple active patents covering teleoperator workflow assignment and control station safety.
- **HavocAI Backing**: Now part of a larger autonomy company with resources across sea, air, and land domains, expanding market reach.

## Strategic Focus
- Integration under HavocAI to extend all-domain collaborative autonomy capabilities
- Serving construction and mining customers with safe, practical autonomy solutions
- Expanding remote operator capabilities to address industry labor shortages
- Continued product development in supervised autonomy for heavy equipment

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Focus**: 11 of 17 employees (pre-acquisition) in technical roles — strong engineering culture with technologies including Python, PyTorch, C++, TypeScript, React, AWS, ROS, and Linux
- **Location**: On-site in Palo Alto, CA (292 Lambert Ave — the HQ)
- **Culture**: Startup environment focused on solving real-world problems in construction and mining; emphasis on safety and productivity innovation
- **Recent Hires From**: Notable companies including Nuro, Dusty Robotics, Lyft, Archer, Tesla — suggests high-caliber engineering talent
- **Growth Trajectory**: Acquired by HavocAI with resources for scale; opportunity to work on cutting-edge robotics and autonomy tech
- **Current Openings** (as of recent): Senior Mechanical Engineer (Vehicle Integration & Validation), Lead Perception Engineer, Logistics & Inventory Associate

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/teleo-ai)
2. [CB Insights Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/teleoai)
3. [PitchBook Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/433416-25)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/teleo-ai/__UCxVxpZgXtnE0Bud-VUXpyEciI445vcn7CaUSYy5OhA)
5. [Lever Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/teleo)
6. [Company Website](https://teleo.ai)
7. [LinkedIn Post (BuiltWorlds Award)](https://linkedin.com/company/teleo-ai)

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