Senior Technical Writer

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Technical Writer to partner with its intelligence systems engineering team to generate and maintain engineering and developer-focused technical documentation.

The team strongly believes that documentation is a key part of the product development process. In this role, you will work closely with developers and users to understand how products are developed and used, identify gaps in understanding, and use documentation to close the gap.

Your mission is to make this process as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well-written and presented artifacts, while building world-class infrastructure and tooling for creating and maintaining documentation content at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused and of the highest quality.
• Documentation covers the full development lifecycle – from planning and design to technical configuration, deployment, and integration.
• Work with engineering to ship user-friendly documentation that informs and instructs, contributing to a robust user experience.
• Contribute to Anduril's technical writing toolkit, working on style guides, documentation lifecycle, and review process.
• Build partnerships across the business to understand users and products.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience generating technical documentation for various levels of technical audiences.
• Technical aptitude: reading and interpreting software and hardware user documentation for complex technical products.
• Proven clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication skills.
• Mission-first mindset: putting the needs of the customer and the mission first.
• Adaptability: thriving in unstructured environments, working independently, and solving vague technical problems.
• Collaboration and low ego: collaborating closely with engineering staff, SMEs, and program management.
• Passion and curiosity: a passion for excellent documentation and user experience, combined with curiosity for new technology.
• Basic development proficiency: applying software development best practices to documentation systems.
• Personal responsibility: thriving with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Willingness to streamline and augment existing processes and products using artificial intelligence.
• Currently possesses and able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using modern software and automation tools to manage high-volume technical writing requirements.
• Toolset includes Docs-as-Code, Sphinx, VS Code, basic command line skills, Git, and mastery of Adobe Acrobat and MS Office Suite.

Benefits: Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.