# Technical Writer, Defense Hardware & Systems

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,000-$114,000 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.

The Technical Writer will partner with product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products.

## Responsibilities

- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused.

- Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track.

- Communicate and help manage expectations.

- Help build a culture of technical documentation.

## Requirements

- 4+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation.

- Experience writing technical user-facing documentation.

- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation.

- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, etc.).

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc.).

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

- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.

- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).

- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary: $86,000-$114,000 USD.

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

- Income protection: life and disability insurance.

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans.

- Family planning and parenting support.

- Mental health resources.

- Professional development: annual reimbursement.

- Commuter benefits.

- Relocation assistance.

## Skills

### Required
- technical writing
- documentation management
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- security clearance

### Nice to have
- military technical documentation
- MIL-STD-40051
- S1000D
- aerospace and defense
- project management

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