Technical Writer, Anduril Industries

• 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 content authoring tools including word editors and specialized authoring software (e.g. Oxygen Author, Raytheon Eagle, etc)
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects
• Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines. Impeccable project-management skills
• Passion for excellent documentation and user experience
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Desirable

• 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
• 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
• This will require an in-depth understanding of what teams are relevant to documentation, and what an organized effort toward collaboration entails
• You are to ensure that stakeholders are engaged 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 charger 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 MIL-STD-40051D, and S1000D, delivered via IADs. Familiarity with these standards is highly desired
• Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
• Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit - working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process, and also relevant software tool procurement through definition requirements for things like authoring and publishing tools
• 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. 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 process and training for others to contribute content. Refine our product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step towards productization of new systems

• Full Family Health Coverage
• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
• Family Planning & Support
• Incentivized Time Off
• Mental Health Resources
• Financial Planning
• Unlimited Provisions
• Professional Development

Total funding: $6.2bn

Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.