# Technical Writer - Advanced Effects

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,000-$149,000 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are seeking an experienced technical writer to partner with our Test & Evaluation group to generate and maintain developmental test and operation-focused technical documentation.

The Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the tone and quality bar on written artifacts, as well as helping to grow the technical documentation function as a whole at Anduril.

Responsibilities:

- Build partnerships across the business to understand our users and our products, with specific focus on hardware and its supporting software components used by the Test & Evaluation group and operators.

- Generate, review, and edit documentation, that is Test & Evaluation-focused and of the highest quality.

- Research highly technical subject matter, organize information from multiple sources, and express technical information in written form that is comprehensible to a wide audience of readers.

- Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit, working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process.

Required Qualifications:

- A bachelor's degree in English, communications, linguistics, or related field. May substitute equivalent technical experience in lieu of education.

- 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation.

- Previous experience creating technical documentation in the Aerospace industry and/or DOD.

- Familiarization of military writing standards and verbiage (412TW-TIH-20-01).

- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation.

- Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, XML, and Visio etc.

- Must have strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects.

- The ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, managing competing demands and occasional tight deadlines.

- Basic development proficiency.

- A passion for excellent documentation and user experiences.

- Must possess and be able to maintain an active Secret security clearance, Top Secret preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university.

- 7+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation.

- Previous experience creating technical documentation for developmental aircraft (Manned or UAS), weapons, or missile systems.

- Familiarization with team workspace software (JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Teamcenter).

- Experience drafting S1000D compliant technical publications (XML, Arbortext, Rapidauthor).

- Experience with and understanding of the DoD logistics process.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to ensure you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- technical writing
- documentation
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- autonomy
- responsibility
- basic development

### Nice to have
- S1000D compliant technical publications
- team workspace software
- DoD logistics process

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