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.