Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation
Shield AI · San Diego, California
Posted November 6, 2026
AI Summary
Shield AI's Hivemind Division is seeking an Autonomy Engineer with technical writing skills to become an expert user of the Hivemind Enterprise product, a platform for designing, deploying, and evaluating autonomy architectures across robotic systems. The role combines hands-on SDK work and cross-functional collaboration with developers and the Customer Engagement team to produce documentation, tutorials, diagrams, and an integrated API-plus-user-guide strategy that customers of varying skill levels can follow.
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.
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