Senior Electrical Engineer

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.

Mission

Own Teleo's board-level electrical hardware from schematic to production. Take ownership of existing PCB designs, bring them up to a professional standard, and establish the processes and rigor needed to design, validate, and manufacture reliable boards at the pace of a fast-growing startup.

• Own the full lifecycle of PCB design: schematic capture, layout, simulation, prototyping, validation, and production release

• Take ownership of existing board designs — clean up schematics, BOMs, and documentation to a maintainable, professional standard

• Design power stages, sensor interfaces, high-precision analog I/O, digital I/O, and galvanic isolation circuits

• Establish and own validation and test practices: bench testing, ESD, load testing, resonance tuning, and whatever else the design demands

• Manage DFM reviews and own the relationship with contract manufacturers and fab houses

• Own compliance and EMC testing

• Collaborate with the embedded firmware team on board bring-up and hardware-software integration

• Provide high-level systems guidance on cable harnesses and electrical architecture to junior engineers

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of professional electrical engineering experience with a focus on PCB design through production

• Strong analog and digital circuit design fundamentals

• Experience designing low-voltage power circuits with high-current stages

• Proficient in KiCad (schematic capture, layout, BOM management)

• Hands-on validation and debugging: oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, load testing

• Experience managing contract manufacturers and fab houses through DFM and production

• Demonstrated ability to own board designs end to end with minimal oversight

• Comfortable working on-site in Palo Alto, CA

• Mixed-signal design: high-precision analog, sensor interfaces, galvanic isolation

• DFM practices: panelization, tolerancing, component selection for manufacturability

• Compliance and EMC testing processes

• Rapid iteration: comfortable spinning boards quickly without sacrificing quality

• Maintaining clean, well-documented schematics and BOMs across multiple active designs

• Experience in automotive, heavy equipment, or ruggedized industrial environments

• Familiarity with embedded firmware concepts — enough to be a strong partner during bring-up

• Experience establishing electrical engineering standards and validation processes on a small team

• Early-stage startup experience — comfortable with broad ownership and fast iteration