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.
This is a senior player-coach role. You will set the technical direction, make the architecture calls, and stay close enough to the code and the field data to review designs in depth. You will also hire, grow, and run the team, and be accountable for autonomy performance on customer deployments across several machine types.
The core technical problem is taking a stack that works today in supervised autonomy on real job sites and scaling it: more machine types, more sites, more material-manipulation tasks, and fewer operator interventions per hour, without compromising safety.
Core Responsibilities Technical leadership
You will lead engineers across the following areas. Sizes will shift as priorities change.
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.
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.
$175K–$200K / yr
Posted Jun 23, 2026
HumanoidUS, San Diego, CA
$300K–$450K / yr
Posted Oct 9, 2026
HavocAIPalo Alto, Ca
$150K–$185K / yr
Posted Feb 27, 2026
Pay not posted
Posted Jun 29, 2026
CHAOS IndustriesEl Segundo, California +1
$246K–$339K / yr
Posted Sep 10, 2026
AeroVectSouth San Francisco - Hybrid +4
$350K–$500K / yr
Posted Jul 27, 2026
Source: the Teleo Lever job board. We last checked this job 2 h ago. We first saw it 8 days ago. A job on a job board does not always mean that the team interviews people now. We found this job board in a public list. We did not yet compare it with the careers page of the company.
No one has reported an interview at Teleo yet. Did you interview there? Add the questions.
Funding records can have errors and can be missing. The company page has the links.
This base pay is below the median for director-level ML and AI engineering jobs in the US.
We compare the middle of each posted range. This is base pay as posted. The group does not include this job.