Software Technical Writer, Anduril Industries

$100-150k

+ Equity

Junior and Mid level
Los Angeles

More information about location

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

Open for applications

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Open for applications

$100-150k

+ Equity

Junior and Mid level
Los Angeles

More information about location

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

  • 2+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for an opinionated audience
  • Experience reading and interpreting API documentation
  • Basic development proficiency - we value the ability to apply software development best practices to documentation systems
  • A passion for excellent documentation and user experiences
  • Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication skills, for a variety of audiences
  • The ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, managing competing demands and occasional tight deadlines
  • Must be a U.S. Person because of required access to U.S. export controlled information

Desirable

  • Clearance-eligibility a nice to have but not required for this role

What the job involves

  • Anduril is seeking an experienced technical writer to partner with our platform product group to generate and maintain engineering and developer-focused technical documentation
  • The team strongly believes that documentation is a key part of the product development process
  • In this role you will work closely with users to understand how they use our products, identify gaps in understanding, and use documentation to close the gap
  • You will be play a foundational role in setting the tone and quality bar on written artifacts, as well as helping to grow the technical documentation function as a whole at Anduril
  • With our focus on defense and national security, product docs play a critical role in ensuring that front-line decision makers have the best tools and information possible about Anduril systems
  • As a Technical Writer, your mission is to make this process as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally written and presented artifacts, while building world-class infrastructure and tooling for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale
  • Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: user guides, release notes, troubleshooting guides, and API documentation
  • You will partner with engineering, product management, and the business across all phases of product development — from ground truth need-finding, to execution, to field testing and validation — to ensure that the user has the right documentation available
  • This is an opportunity to join a small and scrappy team to help shape Anduril’s product documentation experience from the ground up
  • Build partnerships across the business to understand our users and our products, with specific focus on the services built and supported by the platform software product group
  • Generate, review, and edit documentation, that is user-focused and of the highest quality
  • Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit, working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process
  • Work with engineering to ship a user-facing docs surface area and internal infrastructure that encourages contribution to documentation by providing a delightful user experience

Our take

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

SERIES F

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

Leadership

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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