Technical Editor

Amca•El Segundo, CA

About The Position

Amca is building America’s new industrial base by rapidly developing and manufacturing critical components and subsystems for aviation and military systems. The Technical Editor will be responsible for translating the company's extensive engineering and manufacturing capabilities into credible, technically-grounded content for engineering recruits and end customers in sectors like defense and aerospace. This role is part of the Growth team and reports to the Senior Manager of Creative and Marketing. The ideal candidate has experience in technical journalism, product marketing, or engineering, is creative, an expert communicator, and possesses exceptional judgment. The scope of the role is expected to expand due to the company's rapid growth.

Requirements

Experience in technical journalism, product marketing, or engineering.
Expert communication skills.
Exceptional judgment.
Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or protected person status).
Ability to work closely with engineering teams to ensure technical accuracy.
Experience developing and refining communication strategies.
Ability to maintain awareness of industry publications and discourse.

Nice To Haves

Experience working directly in relevant fields such as technical journalism, product marketing, or engineering.

Responsibilities

Own Amca's relationship with external platforms (e.g., forums) and networks, serving as the primary point of contact.
Ensure Amca's presence on external platforms is substantive and generates meaningful inbound leads.
Execute on editorial opportunities (sponsored content, contributed articles, engagement) aligned with Amca's brand standards and company beliefs.
Own the go-to-market strategy for Amca's product development platform, RAPID.
Develop a clear, technically honest, and compelling communication strategy for RAPID in collaboration with the engineering team.
Collaborate with the Senior Manager of Creative and Marketing and the design team to share RAPID's capabilities through assets like technical explainers, one-pagers, and social content.
Produce a steady cadence of technical content monthly for social platforms, publishing short-form content that exemplifies Amca's work.
Work closely with the Senior Manager and VP of Growth to ensure all public-facing technical content is accurate, credible, and consistent with company values.
Serve as the primary technical contributor on multi-media projects, including long-form writing (op-eds, blog posts, industry publications), video (long and short form), events, and other branded materials.
Work closely with the engineering team to ensure all technical content is captured accurately.
Work with the CEO, VP of Growth, and leadership team to develop and refine communication about the industrial base.
Maintain deep awareness of publications in the industrial ecosystem to sharpen Amca's position and point of view in policy discourse.