# Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Diego, California
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $136K–204K
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Skills: Systems, Hivemind Enterprise Division
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/bd301ff3-45b6-4add-91bb-3ad27dd4ee1b

## 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. 


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