Become an expert user of Shield AI’s Hivemind Enterprise autonomy platform and create clear technical documentation, tutorials, diagrams, and workflow guides. Collaborate with developers and Customer Engagement teams to document product functionality, select documentation tools, and connect autogenerated API documentation with user guides. The role requires robotics and autonomy knowledge, C++ proficiency, strong technical writing, Linux experience, and effective cross-functional communication.
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.
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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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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