# Autonomy Engineer, Technical Documentation

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 d

- **Id**: 3890411
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-senior-autonomy-engineer-technical-documentation>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T19:26:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:29:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1903
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Drones, Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 50
- **Name**: Shield AI
- **Domain**: shield.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shield-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 73
- **Open postings**: 91
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.868
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 68
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 204000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 204000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T21:03:18Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 204000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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