Firmware Engineer Internship/Co-op, Teleo
Winter/Spring 2025
$5,000 - $6,000 a month
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Autonomous construction robotics
Open for applications
Autonomous construction robotics
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$5,000 - $6,000 a month
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
Teleo's mission is to revolutionize how we build the world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in developing high-quality firmware on microcontrollers with a clear safety driven passion for robotics
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science in progress
- Proven experience bringing up PCBAs, µC and developing algorithms on RTOS
- Strong interest in embedded firmware development for safety-critical application
Desirable
- Experience in board hardware bring-up
- History of contributing to projects in C/C++/Rust/Python ideally using software development tools (such as GitHub)
- Strong experience working with embedded microcontrollers (Ti, NXP, STM, ESP...)
- Experience with protocols/interfaces such as I2C, CAN, PWM, SPI
- Experience with Linux (bash, Python, git) command-line scripting and revision control
- Interest in developing hardware in the loop tests and automation for manufacturing
- Ability to travel to construction job sites
- Interest in robotics and autonomous vehicles in particular
What the job involves
- As a Firmware Engineer, you will be working with a small team to implement, test, and validate on-board firmware used for Teleo's Supervised Autonomy
- With a high attention to detail, you will be involved in the testing, validation, and deployment of firmware on proprietary Teleo ECUs. Interfacing daily with software, and hardware engineers, you will be directly involved in the launch of new heavy equipment supported by Teleo
Our take
Operating a massive piece of heavy equipment like a bullddozer for 8-10 hours a day is a challenging job. It's tiring, unsafe and requires a great deal of synchronisation with other workers and vehicles on the job. Teleo is lightening this burden for construction teams with remote and autonomous control of heavy equipment.
The startup has pursued a pragmatic “crawl-walk-run” approach to deliver the benefits of supervised autonomy now. Instead of having each machine in a fleet operated by a driver in a cab, they’re all being controlled remotely by a single human operator miles away from the job site.
The hope is that the technology matures toward fully autonomous heavy equipment operation. Like any new, next-generation technology, it can take some getting used to. However construction workers are simply adapting to robots on site as a another tool to get the job done, putting Teleo in a strong position as it sets out to disrupt the construction industry.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$7.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $20.1m
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Rom Clement
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously Head of hardware & Technology Strategist at Lyft, working in self-driving. Before that, worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Google in Google Maps. At Google Fiber, they grew a team responsible for the development of laser telecommunication systems for space and aerial applications. Rom has a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan.
Vinay Shet
(CEO & Co-Founder)Prior to Teleo, they were the Director of Product Management at Lyft working on building Lyft's self-driving cars. Prior to Lyft, Vinay led Product Management at Google Street View, Google Maps, and Google reCAPTCHA launching several consumer products used by millions of users worldwide. Vinay has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, focusing on Computer Vision from the University of Maryland.
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