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Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

Shield AI · San Diego, CA · posted 3 days ago

In short: Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation at Shield AI in San Diego, CA, posted 3 days ago.

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The job

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EmployerShield AI
LocationSan Diego, California
FieldEngineering, Construction and Energy › Manufacturing and hardware engineering
Levelnot stated
Source categorySystems, Hivemind Enterprise Division
Posted2026-11-06 (3 days ago)
Work arrangementOn-site at the location listed
PayNot published in the source listing

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. 

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.   ###   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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    The city

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    The place in numbers

    San Diego has 1,389,526 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 3.5% of the population of California. It covers 326 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 4,261 people per square mile. The median age is 36.2, 4% younger than the state median (36.2 against 37.9).

    Housing

    The median gross rent is $2,313 a month (rent plus utilities), 14% above the state median ($2,313 against $2,036). Over a year that is 25.7% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $906,700, which is 8.4 times the median household income ($108,077); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 47.3% of households own their home, 15% below the state average (47.3% against 55.9%).

    Work and pay

    The San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metropolitan area has 1,538,060 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $58,690 a year, 15% above the national median ($58,690 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are food preparation and serving related (161,910 jobs, median $38,840); office and administrative support (155,940 jobs, median $52,940); sales and related (124,550 jobs, median $44,010). The area is most specialised in life, physical, and social science (1.7 times) and architecture and engineering (1.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($136,440) and computer and mathematical ($129,520). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of San Diego County was 4.7%. 65.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in San Diego County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

    Getting around

    Among workers, 62.6% drive alone, 2.7% use public transit, 3.5% walk, 21.2% work from home. 9.5% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 51% below the state average (9.5% against 19.4%).

    People and education

    51.0% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 38% above the state share (51.0% against 37.1%). 25.1% of residents were born outside the United States, 7% below the state share (25.1% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 11.0%, 8% below the state rate (11.0% against 12.0%).

    Climate

    The warmest month is Aug, averaging 77°F (24.9°C), and the coolest is Dec at 51°F (10.7°C). About 320 mm (13 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Feb is the wettest month (70 mm) and Jun the driest (2 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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    Where to live

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    San Diego, CA0 mi$2,313$906,700$108,0779.5%n/aJobs
    El Cajon, CA10 mi$1,856$681,700$67,51110.7%n/aJobs
    Chula Vista, CA15 mi$2,229$758,700$108,03217.6%n/aJobs
    San Marcos, CA22 mi$2,348$868,000$109,37714.0%n/a—
    Escondido, CA22 mi$2,046$714,500$91,96716.8%n/aJobs
    Carlsbad, CA23 mi$2,808$1,257,000$142,74816.6%n/aJobs
    Vista, CA27 mi$2,249$762,400$94,97514.4%n/a—
    Oceanside, CA30 mi$2,303$770,300$97,73718.3%n/a—
    Temecula, CA47 mi$2,347$679,700$121,06335.1%n/a—

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    San Diego, CA0 mi1,389,526
    Los Angeles, CA111 mi3,857,263
    Phoenix, AZ296 mi1,642,323
    San Jose, CA407 mi990,138
    San Francisco, CA475 mi830,235
    Denver, CO833 mi718,877
    Seattle, WA1,059 mi754,195
    San Antonio, TX1,123 mi1,479,835
    Oklahoma City, OK1,135 mi697,125
    Fort Worth, TX1,148 mi963,194
    Austin, TX1,153 mi979,539
    Dallas, TX1,181 mi1,307,930
    Houston, TX1,298 mi2,328,253
    Chicago, IL1,724 mi2,711,226
    Indianapolis, IN1,782 mi885,860
    Columbus, OH1,950 mi914,802
    Charlotte, NC2,074 mi903,844
    Jacksonville, FL2,085 mi977,670
    Philadelphia, PA2,365 mi1,579,706
    New York, NY2,427 mi8,483,844

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    El Cajon, CA10 mi1
    Chula Vista, CA15 mi2
    Carlsbad, CA23 mi3
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    Irvine, CA70 mi49
    Costa Mesa, CA74 mi20
    Anaheim, CA80 mi50
    Compton, CA98 mi3
    Huntington Park, CA102 mi2
    El Segundo, CA106 mi201
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    Los Angeles, CA111 mi734
    Beverly Hills, CA114 mi4
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