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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Technical Writer to join the Intelligence Systems team in Reston, Virginia. This role focuses on generating and maintaining engineering and developer-focused technical documentation for the Intelligence Community (IC). You will partner closely with engineering teams, product management, and business stakeholders across all phases of product development—from requirements gathering through field testing and validation.
The role emphasizes that documentation is a critical part of the product development process and a key enabler for front-line decision makers. You will work to understand how products are developed and used, identify documentation gaps, and create exceptionally well-written artifacts that set the quality bar for the organization. Documentation artifacts include compliance documentation, process guides, user guides, release notes, troubleshooting guides, and API documentation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Generate, review, and edit user-focused documentation of the highest quality
- Cover the full development lifecycle from planning and design through technical configuration, deployment, and integration
- Partner with engineering to ship user-friendly documentation that informs, instructs, and enhances user experience
- Contribute to Anduril's technical writing toolkit, including style guides and documentation lifecycle processes
- Build partnerships across the business to understand users and products
- Help shape Anduril's product documentation experience from the ground up within a startup-like team environment
This is an individual contributor role with significant autonomy and responsibility. You will work in an unstructured, fast-paced environment where you drive tasks to completion independently while collaborating closely with SMEs and program management.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for various technical audiences and product types
- Technical aptitude: ability to read, interpret, and work with complex software and hardware documentation and structured certification processes
- Proven clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication skills for audiences ranging from highly technical to lay persons
- Mission-first mindset: prioritize customer and mission needs; motivated by advancing national and allied defense capabilities
- Adaptability and self-starter mentality; thrive in unstructured environments and solve vague technical problems independently
- Strong collaboration and low-ego approach; work effectively with engineering staff, SMEs, and program management
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience combined with curiosity about new technology
- Basic development proficiency; ability to apply software development best practices to documentation systems
- High level of autonomy and personal responsibility; manage competing demands and tight deadlines
- Willingness to streamline and augment processes using artificial intelligence
- Currently possess and able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (required)
- Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience using, evaluating, and implementing modern software and automation tools for high-volume technical writing
- Proficiency with Docs-as-Code, Sphinx, VS Code, basic command line skills, Git or other source control systems
- Mastery of Adobe Acrobat and MS Office Suite
