About the position
As a technical writer, your mission is to partner with our numerous product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. As such, the technical writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts. With Anduril’s focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the “arsenal of democracy.” Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well written and presented artifacts.
Responsibilities
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused.
- Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation.
- Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit - working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process.
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track.
- Communicate and help manage expectations.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating process and training for others to contribute content.
Requirements
- 5+ 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 content authoring tools including word editors and specialized authoring software.
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects.
- Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Impeccable project-management skills.
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice-to-haves
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards.
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
Benefits
- Platinum Healthcare Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost.
- Private Medical Insurance (PMI) for UK roles, covering full cost for employee and dependents.
- Private health plan through Bupa for AUS roles, fully subsidized.
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered.
- Generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December.
- 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support including fertility and adoption coverage.
- Mental Health Resources providing free therapy and life coaching.
- Professional development stipend available.
- Daily Meals and Provisions in many offices.
- Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
- Relocation assistance depending on role eligibility.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan - both traditional and Roth.
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