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Anduril Industries — Costa Mesa California
S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold.
Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril’s Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds.
Responsibilities
include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Writer to lead high-profile and demanding programs for our government customers. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of our products, which are world-class.
ABOUT THE JOB As a Senior Technical Writer, your mission is to partner with our 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 Engineering, Operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap.
As such, the Senior Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts. ” Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally written and presented artifacts. You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets.
This will require an in-depth understanding of which teams are relevant to documentation, and what an organized effort toward collaboration entails. You will ensure that stakeholders are engaged at the right time, and you will guide them toward a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
Written content artifacts under this charter may include: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with Engineering and Operations to deliver task-, condition-, and standard-centric documentation. Research Anduril products, scope Tech Data deliverables for Programs of Record with DoD customers, and write Data Modules in MIL-STD-40051-2E XML utilizing Raytheon EAGLE (with plans to migrate to RapidAuthor).
Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decisions for the company by using a data-driven approach and considering input from stakeholders. You should be prepared to fill gaps that represent risks to the documentation roadmap.
Communicate and help manage expectations.