Technical Writer, Ghost

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Programs : Deployments : Technical Writing

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Technical Writer to create and maintain user documentation for their AI-powered systems. The role involves partnering with product and operations teams, understanding user workflows, and ensuring accurate, easy-to-understand documentation for military operators. Experience with military documentation standards is highly desired.

What you'd actually do

  1. Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
  2. Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data-driven approach and consider input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions.
  3. Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time, and shared with leadership.
  4. Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process, ensuring that those that come after you learn from your acquired Anduril experience.

Skills

Required

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • user documentation
  • documentation roadmap
  • contract deliverables
  • technical manuals
  • operational manuals
  • maintenance manuals
  • procedures
  • checklists
  • templates
  • user guides
  • troubleshooting guides
  • release notes
  • MIL-STD-40051D
  • S1000D
  • IADs