IPD Technical Writer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

24d

About The Position

Anduril’s Mission Success team partners with business lines across the company and supports its products through product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. The IPD Technical Writer works with product, engineering, operations, account, and manufacturing teams to create and maintain accurate, current, user-focused documentation for aircraft interior products and other Anduril offerings. The role helps establish standards for tone, voice, and quality across written artifacts and makes it easier for operators to learn and use Anduril systems.

The writer identifies stakeholders, develops documentation roadmaps and milestones, engages subject matter experts, and guides work toward customer-ready documents. The role also coordinates with account teams to ensure contract deliverables are accurate, on time, and in the required format. Deliverables may include technical, operational, and maintenance manuals; procedures; checklists; templates; user and troubleshooting guides; and release notes. For government programs, documentation may need to follow standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D and be delivered via IADs.

This position creates and maintains IPD, WDM, and ICA documents; develops technical graphics; and extracts and organizes parts data from engineering documentation. It supports documentation across product-development phases, manages multiple projects and deadlines, communicates risks and expectations, and contributes to a living documentation process.

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating IPD technical documentation.
• Experience writing technical user-facing documentation.
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation.
• Experience building content in a variety of formats, including 3D CAD tools such as PTC IsoDraw, SolidWorks, or AutoCAD.
• Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical-documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and terminology such as MIL-STD-40051 and S1000D.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, especially with technical subjects.
• Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
• Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense for the DoD.
• Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Familiarity with government documentation standards and delivery methods, including MIL-STD-40051D, S1000D, and IADs.

Responsibilities

• Create, revise, and maintain IPD, WDM, and ICA documents for aircraft interior products.
• Develop illustrations and technical graphics to support documentation.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, Bills of Material (BOM), and change orders to extract and organize component data.
• Convert 3D CAD models or 2D engineering sketches into 2D line art, exploded views, and schematics.
• Ensure proper assembly sequencing, list line-replaceable units, and update interchangeable or substitute part numbers.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to verify parts-data accuracy.
• Author and maintain manuals in compliance with S1000D.
• Generate, review, and edit user-focused documentation.
• Work with engineering and operations teams to deliver task-, conditions-, and standard-centric documentation.
• Evaluate and prioritize documentation tasks and keep efforts on track.
• Use a data-driven approach and stakeholder input to support well-informed decisions.
• Manage multiple projects under tight deadlines and communicate and manage expectations.
• Identify risks in adequate time and share them with leadership.
• Contribute to the living documentation process and help capture lessons from experience.
• Identify stakeholders, lead them through documentation roadmaps and milestones, and guide subject matter experts toward finished user-facing documents.
• Work with account teams to ensure contract deliverables are accurate, on time, and in the correct format.
• Partner with account, product, and engineering teams throughout product development to ensure users have appropriate documentation.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed