Technical Writer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 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. RapidAuthor, 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)

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
• Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD), S1000D, or other applicable MIL-STDs.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Partner with numerous product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products.
• Manage, organize and dispatch work to our staff of technical writers in order to meet our mission and program delivery requirements.
• Work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap.
• Play a key role in cultivating our team members’ professional development.
• Play a key role in hitting our delivery targets.
• Play a key role in ensuring quality across our written artifacts.
• Ensure that stakeholders are engaged at the right time.
• Manage our writing staff’s daily tasks to ensure that we are delivering finished user-facing document that meets our standards and customer requirements.
• Provide status and performance metrics to the head of technical documentation to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
• Assist the head of technical documentation to partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.
• Facilitate the transition to infrastructure and tooling needed for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale.
• Coordinate efforts to define requirements, assign testing and discovery tasks team members, and develop 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 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 execute input from leadership and stakeholders to deliver results.
• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you (US Roles).
• Full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents (UK & AUS Roles).
• Annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents (IE Roles).
• Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.
• Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
• Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
• Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching.
• Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
• Annual reimbursement for professional development.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
• Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
• Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options (US Roles).
• Pension plan with employer match (UK & IE Roles).
• Superannuation plan (AUS Roles).