Technical Writer, Maritime

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

Technical Writer for Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The role focuses on creating and maintaining user documentation for AI-powered military systems, ensuring operators can effectively use Anduril products. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering and operations, evaluating documentation tasks, managing expectations, and contributing to a culture of technical documentation. 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

  • 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