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Salary: USD 126,000 - 167,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Senior Technical Writer to create and maintain user documentation for airframe and defense systems. You will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver accurate, clear, and user-focused documentation that supports military operators and customers.
In this role, you will:
- Generate, review, and edit technical documentation focused on user needs, working with engineering and operations teams to deliver task-centric, standards-compliant content
- Evaluate and prioritize documentation tasks to keep projects on track, using data-driven approaches to inform decisions
- Communicate proactively with stakeholders, manage expectations, and flag risks early to leadership
- Help build a documentation culture by contributing to living documentation processes and mentoring future technical writers
- Identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through documentation roadmaps with clear milestones
- Engage subject matter experts at appropriate times to guide them toward finished, customer-ready documents
- Work with account teams to ensure contract deliverables are accurate, timely, and properly formatted
- Create diverse content artifacts including technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes
- Partner across all phases of product development to ensure users have appropriate documentation available
You will work on government programs requiring documentation in military standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D, delivered via Integrated Authoring and Data Management (IAD) systems.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation
- Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
- Experience building content in multiple formats (Word, XML, etc.)
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance
- Ability to relocate to Ashville, OH if not already local; role requires onsite presence
- Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Military exposure and experience with military technical documentation standards (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc.)
- Strong written and verbal communication 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
