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# Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

- **Company:** Lever, Inc.
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $136,000 - $204,000
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Linux, Modular Design, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/bd301ff3-45b6-4add-91bb-3ad27dd4ee1b/apply

## About the Role

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

## Description

* 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.