Senior Technical Writer Job at Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa
Anduril Industries, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, 92626
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Overview
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
Team Overview
Anduril’s Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced senior technical writer or manager to build and maintain user documentation and a technical docs system for collaboration and updating. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of products, which are world-class.
Role Specifics
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 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 tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.
Documentation at Scale
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.
Stakeholder Engagement and Roadmapping
You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established milestones and targets. This will require an in-depth understanding of what teams are relevant to documentation and what an organized collaboration entails. You will ensure stakeholders are engaged at the right time and guide them toward finished user-facing documents that meet customer needs. You will also work with account teams to ensure contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
Artifacts and Collaboration
Written content artifacts under this role may include 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.
Infrastructure and Tools
Another critical aspect is building the infrastructure and tooling needed for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale. You will help define requirements, identify software solutions, and implement them, while also building processes and training to scale this function across teams.
What you’ll do
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task-, condition-, and standard-centric documentation.
- Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit—develop style guides, documentation lifecycle, and review processes, and procure authoring and publishing tools.
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks to support product documentation efforts, using a data-driven approach and input from stakeholders to inform decisions; fill gaps that pose risks to the roadmap.
- Communicate and help manage expectations. Note risks with adequate time, identify mitigations, and allocate resources.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating processes and training for others to contribute content; refine the product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step toward productization of new systems.
Required Qualifications
- 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)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (DoD)
- Military exposure and experience with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (S1000d, Mil-Std-40051, etc.)
- Experience documenting software release content in an Agile environment
US Salary Range: $100,000—$192,000 USD
Benefits
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
- For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
- For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
- 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
- Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
- A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
- Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
- Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
- 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
The Anduril Equal Opportunity Employer statement: Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process.
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Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
Industries
- Defense and Space Manufacturing