Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

Shield AI
On-site
Posted about 11 hours ago
Hivemind Enterprise Division

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As an Autonomy Engineer, you'll work on technical documentation for the Hivemind product, requiring skills in software engineering, robotics, and technical writing. You'll draft tutorials and documentation for a diverse range of users while collaborating with engineering teams.

Eligible from: US only

Job Description

The Hivemind Division of Shield AI seeks a highly skilled and detail-oriented Autonomy Engineer with Technical Writing Skills to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a background in software engineering and robotics and be able to become a superuser of our Hivemind Enterprise product: a software product that enables scalable design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration of autonomy architectures for a wide range of robotic platforms. This role requires you to be able to work cross-functionally with developers across engineering teams and learn to use the Hivemind SDK product, then draft your knowledge into well-written technical documentation and clearly communicated tutorials capable of being followed by customers with wide differences in skills and level of experience. 

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

  • Become an expert user of the Hivemind Enterprise product.
  • Contribute to the selection of documentation creation platforms and tools.
  • Work with developers and our Customer Engagement team to generate technical writing to describe product functionalities.
  • Generate diagrams, flow charts, and other visual aids to describe supported workflows.
  • Devise a strategy for connecting auto-generated API documentation with hand-written user guides.
  • Requirements

    Required qualifications:

  • Background in robotics and autonomy.
  • Coding proficiency with C++.
  • Highly proficient at technical writing (academic papers, technical tutorials, software product documentation, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of what excellence in software product documentation looks like.
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
  • Fast thinker, fast doer, able to generate results rapidly with minimal input in order to unblock iteration.
  • Excellent communicator. 
  • Preferred qualifications:

  • Familiar with software engineering practices with regards to software versioning, packaging, deployment.
  • Experience within the aviation and/or aerospace industry.
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    About the job

    Posted on
    Nov 6, 2026
    Job type
    Full-time
    Location
    San Diego, CaliforniaOn-site

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