Technical Writer (Maritime)

About This Role

This role involves creating and maintaining user documentation for Anduril's diverse product lines, with a focus on defense and national security. The Technical Writer partners with product and operations teams to deliver accurate, easy-to-understand documentation that ensures front-line operators can effectively leverage Anduril products. The position involves setting standards for tone, voice, and quality across all written artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products
• Organize engineering and program delivery functions to support the documentation mission
• Work closely with engineers, operations, and subject matter experts to understand products, identify user workflows, and close documentation gaps
• Set the bar for tone, voice, and quality across written artifacts
• Make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible
• Identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets
• Engage subject matter experts at the right time and guide them towards finished user-facing documents that meet customer needs
• Work with account teams to ensure contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format
• Create technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes
• Partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available
• Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused
• Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
• Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track
• Help drive the best decisions for the company using a data-driven approach and stakeholder input
• Communicate and help manage expectations, ensuring risks are noted and shared with leadership
• Contribute to the living documentation process to build a culture of technical documentation

Requirements

• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
• Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation
• Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, etc)
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects