Technical Writer, Ghost
Anduril
Costa Mesa, California
Full-Time
$86,000
OfficeExecutive
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 centurys most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Andurils 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.
Andurils 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 Technical Writer to create and maintain user documentation across our diverse business lines. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of our products, which are world-class.
As a 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 do whatever it takes to 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. As such, the Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.
With Andurils 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 complex hardware and software systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well-written and presented artifacts.
You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. You will engage subject matter experts at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: 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.
Along with our commercial offerings outlined above, Anduril is pursuing Programs with the GOV, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D, delivered via IETMs / IETDs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods is highly desired.
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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