Senior Technical Writer

ABOUT THE TEAM

Andurils 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 Senior Technical Writer to lead high-profile and demanding programs for our government customers. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of our products which are world-class.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Senior Technical Writer your mission is to partner with our 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 this role you will work closely with Engineering Operations and various subject matter experts to understand our products identify user workflows and use documentation to close the gap. As such the Senior Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone voice and quality across our written artifacts.

With Andurils 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 written and presented artifacts.

You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. This will require an in-depth understanding of which teams are relevant to documentation and what an organized effort toward collaboration entails. You will ensure that stakeholders are engaged at the right time and you will guide them toward 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: 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.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Generate review and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with Engineering and Operations to deliver task- condition- and standard-centric documentation.
• Research Anduril products scope Tech Data deliverables for Programs of Record with DoD customers and write Data Modules in MIL-STDE XML utilizing Raytheon EAGLE (with plans to migrate to RapidAuthor).
• Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decisions for the company by using a data-driven approach and considering input from stakeholders. You should be prepared to fill gaps that represent risks to the documentation roadmap.
• Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time mitigations are identified and resources are allocated.
• Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating processes and training for others to contribute content. Refine our product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step toward the productization of new systems.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7 years of demonstrated excellence generating XML-based technical documentation preferably in a DoD space.
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation (e.g. schematics CAD or engineering drawings).
• Experience building MIL-STD-40051 compliant content (highly prefer hands-on experience using Raytheon EAGLE / EPS).
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with an emphasis on explaining highly technical subjects simply.
• Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility managing competing priorities and tight deadlines with impeccable project-management skills.
• Passion for excellent documentation technical accuracy and user experience.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance (or higher).
• Ability to relocate if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa CA.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Military exposure and experience particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards guidelines and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051 S1000D etc.).
• Previous experience creating technical documentation for DoD hardware and software products.
• Experience with Siemens RapidAuthor.
• Experience documenting software UIs in an Agile environment.

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 Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

Data Privacy

To view Andurils candidate data privacy policy please visit submitting your application you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk integrity and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists adverse media public-record information and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology intellectual property and organizational security.