Senior Technical Writer

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB
Anduril is seeking a technical writer to partner with our 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 as well as how they are used, identify gaps in understanding, and use documentation to close the gap. You will be play a foundational role in setting the tone and quality bar on written artifacts.

With our focus on defense and national security, product docs play a critical role in ensuring that front-line decision makers have the best tools and information possible about Anduril systems. As a Technical Writer, 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 our documentation content at scale.
Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: compliance, process documentation, user guides, release notes, troubleshooting guides, and API documentation. You will partner with engineering, product management, and the business across all phases of product development — from ground truth need-finding, to execution, to field testing and validation — to ensure that the user has the right documentation available

This is an opportunity to join a small and start-up like team to help shape Anduril’s product documentation experience from the ground up.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Generate, review, and edit documentation, that is user-focused and of the highest quality.
• Work with engineering to ship a user-friendly documentation that not only informs and instructs, but provides a delightful user experience.
• Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit, working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process.
• Build partnerships across the business to understand our users and our products

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for an opinionated audience.
• Experience reading and interpreting software and hardware user documentation, complex technical products, and highly-structured certification processes.
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication skills, for a variety of audiences.
• A passion for excellent documentation and user experiences.
• Basic development proficiency - we value the ability to apply software development best practices to documentation systems.
• The ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, managing competing demands and occasional tight deadlines.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience using, evaluating, and implementing modern software and automation tools to help manage high volume technical writing requirements.