Senior Technical Writer, Anduril Industries

$128-192k

+ Equity

Senior level
Los Angeles

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

Job no longer available

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Job no longer available

$128-192k

+ Equity

Senior level
Los Angeles

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Company mission

To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical 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. Arbortext)
  • 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
  • Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US)

Desirable

  • Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
  • Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD)
  • Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage
  • Experience leading and managing teams on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders

What the job involves

  • As a Senior 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Another critical aspect of this role is to build the infrastructure and tooling needed for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale. This structure will enable technical writing contributions from elsewhere across the business
  • In this role, you will co-lead efforts to define requirements, identify software solutions, and then implement them while also building process and training to scale this function across other teams
  • 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

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

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.

This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.

Anduril closed a Series E funding round in 2022 led by Valor Equity Partners. This funding was used for research and development of its autonomous defense products, such as the Roadrunner, a modular twin-jet powered autonomous vehicle that can take off and land vertically. Variants of the Roadrunner include defensive warhead armed interceptors which are the first drone weapons that can be retrieved after deployment. The company has also expanded to Australia where it is working in tandem with the Australian Defence Force to improve its military technology and infrastructure and is recruiting talent worldwide to support its rapidly growing portfolio of defense projects.

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68% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jun 2024

$1.5bn

LATE VC

Dec 2022

$1.5bn

SERIES E

Total funding: $3.7bn

Company benefits

  • 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

Company HQ

Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA

Founders

Brian Schimpf

(Co-founder & CEO)

Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.

Palmer Luckey

(Co-founder)

They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.

Trae Stephens

(Co-founder)

Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.

Matt Grimm

(Co-founder & COO)

Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.

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