Technical Writer
Anduril Industries
Job Summary
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking an experienced Technical Writer for its Mission Success team. This role involves partnering with product and operations teams to create accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand user documentation for Anduril products. The Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the tone, voice, and quality of written artifacts, ensuring front-line operators can effectively leverage systems for defense and national security.
Must Have
- Generate, review, and edit user-focused documentation.
- Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation.
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts.
- Communicate and help manage expectations, ensuring risks are noted and shared with leadership.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process.
- 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation.
- Experience writing technical user-facing documentation.
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation.
- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, etc).
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Good to Have
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc).
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects.
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
Perks & Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost (US Roles).
- Full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents (UK & AUS Roles).
- Annual contribution toward private health insurance for you and your dependents (IE Roles).
- Life and disability insurance.
- Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.
- Caregiver & Wellness Leave.
- Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers.
- Access to free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching.
- Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support.
- Annual reimbursement for professional development.
- Company-funded commuter benefits.
- Relocation Assistance (depending on role eligibility).
- Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options (US Roles).
- Pension plan with employer match (UK & IE Roles).
- Superannuation plan (AUS Roles).
Job Description
Technical Writer
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril’s Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced Technical Writer to create and maintain user documentation across our diverse business lines. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of products, which are world-class.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a technical Writer, your mission is to partner with our numerous product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. As such, the technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.
With Anduril’s focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the “arsenal of democracy.” Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well written and presented artifacts.
You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. You will engage subject matter experts at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.
Along with our commercial offerings outlined above, Anduril is pursuing Programs with the GOV, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D, and S1000D, delivered via IADs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods, is highly desired.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data-driven approach and consider input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions.
- Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time, and shared with leadership.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process, ensuring that those that come after you learn from your acquired Anduril experience.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation
- Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, etc)
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc)
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD)
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders
US Salary Range
$98,000 - $130,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Healthcare Benefits
- US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
- UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
- IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.
Additional Benefits
- Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
- Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
- Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
- Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
- Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
- Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
Retirement Savings Plan
- US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
- UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
- AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/
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