Senior Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

Job Description

Job Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

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. 

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.

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.

Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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