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Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

Salary

USD 136,000-204,000 per-year-salary

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Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

The Hivemind Division of Shield AI seeks a highly skilled and detail-oriented Autonomy Engineer with Technical Writing Skills to join our team.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Additional Information

  • Salary: USD 136,000-204,000 per-year-salary
  • 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)

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