Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

Team: Systems

Location: San Diego, California

Commitment: Full Time Employee

Workplace Type: onsite

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.