# Technical Illustrator

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**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 a Technical Illustrator to support mission-critical defense programs by developing high-quality technical illustrations used in maintenance, operations, and training documentation.

## Responsibilities

- Define and implement S1000D compliant illustration standards across technical documentation.

- Advise technical writers and illustrators on appropriate graphic type (procedural, descriptive, parts).

- Develop and maintain illustration style guides.

- Create and revise 2D and 3D content using Rapid Illustrator in support of defense docs (IETMs, manuals, training manuals).

- Interpret engineering drawings, CAD models, source data and redlines to produce accurate illustrations.

- Develop exploded views, parts, breakdowns, installations/removal graphics and system schematics.

- Ensure illustrations comply with S1000D, MIL-STD, and program specific style guides.

- Collaborate with technical writers to align graphics with procedural content.

- Manage illustrations revisions through configuration control and document change processes.

- Maintain and contribute to a reusable graphics asset library.

- Support reviews with engineering, QA, and program stakeholders.

## Requirements

- 3+ years of experience as a technical illustrator in aerospace, defense, or government contracting.

- Proficiency with PTC IsoDraw/ Rapid Author/ Rapid Illustrator.

- Experience supporting DoD programs and working in regulated documentation environments.

- Ability to interpret engineering source data (drawings, models, specifications).

- Experience working with technical publication tools (Arbortext, Rapid Author, Cortona).

- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior work in DOD programs such as fighter aircraft.

- Experience working with a Teamcenter PLM environment.

- Experience working with technical publication tools such as Arbortext, Oxygen, RapidAuthor.

- Active DoD security clearance.

- Experience in utilizing CAD models as source data for illustration.

- Experience creating interactive 3D animations.

- Experience creating or maintaining illustration style guides.

- Background in both illustration and authoring.

## Benefits

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

## Skills

### Required
- PTC IsoDraw
- Rapid Author
- Rapid Illustrator
- CAD
- S1000D authoring environments
- PLM/configuration management systems

### Nice to have
- Teamcenter PLM environment
- Arbortext
- Oxygen
- RapidAuthor
- Active DoD security clearance
- interactive 3D animations
- illustration style guides

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