Software Integration Engineering Internship/Co-op (Winter/Spring 2025)
Teleo
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 19, 2024
Teleo is a robotics startup disrupting a trillion-dollar industry. Teleo converts construction heavy equipment, like loaders, dozers, excavators, trucks, etc. into autonomous robots. This technology allows a single operator to efficiently control multiple machines simultaneously, delivering substantial benefits to our customers while significantly enhancing operator safety and comfort.
Teleo is founded by Vinay Shet and Rom Clément, experienced technology executives who led the development of Lyft’s Self Driving Car and Google Street View. Teleo is backed by YCombinator, Up Partners, F-Prime Capital, and a host of industry luminaries. Teleo’s product is already deployed on several continents and generating revenue.
Teleo is poised for rapid growth. This presents a unique opportunity to be part of a team that is creating a product with a profound impact on our customers, working on cutting-edge 100,000-pound autonomous robots, engineering intricate systems at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI, and joining the early stages of an exciting startup journey.
About the Role
In the Software Integration Engineer intern role, you will work closely with various teams at Teleo to develop new features for and improve the overall user experience of Teleo’s Supervised Autonomy software stack. As part of this role, you will touch a variety of subsystems including integration with sensors, UI/Frontend, safety critical controllers and wireless communication links.
Responsibilities
- Work with various teams to expand the Teleo fleet to new models of heavy machinery.
- Advance the functionality of the Teleo system by developing new features that enhance the productivity of heavy machinery operators.
- Deploy features to job sites and work with customer-facing teams and operators to collect feedback for improvements
Minimum Qualifications
- Ongoing/completed Bachelor's, Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: C++, Python, JavaScript.
- Project work (preferably in a group setting) in Robotics, Computer Vision or related domains.
- Strong enthusiasm for continuous learning, including reviewing and contributing to pull requests and design reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using middleware frameworks such as ROS(2), ZeroMQ, MQTT, etc.
- Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
- Experience working with sensor modalities such as cameras, IMU, GNSS, INS, lidar, radar, etc.
- Experience with perception projects involving cameras and/or lidar for tasks such as object detection, scene segmentation, depth estimation, free space estimation, etc.
- Self-motivated and capable of planning and completing tasks independently.
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.