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Senior Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

Shield AI · San Diego, California

$168k - $252k
On-site
Full-time
Senior
Hivemind Enterprise Division

Posted November 6, 2026

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AI Summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on technical documentation to become an expert user of its Hivemind Enterprise autonomy software. The role involves selecting documentation tools, partnering with developers and the Customer Engagement team to write product documentation, creating diagrams and workflow visuals, and designing a strategy to link auto-generated API docs with hand-written user guides. It suits someone with robotics/autonomy background, C++ skills, and strong technical writing ability.

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 www.shield.ai. 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. 

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