Sr. Technical Writer, Mission Autonomy

Responsibilities

• Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and test to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
• Document autonomy behaviors, operating modes, and failure and contingency handling so that users and integrators can predict system response, and keep that documentation current as behaviors change release over release
• Own interface and message reference documentation for the autonomy stack, working from government reference interface definitions, protobuf and schema definitions, and the source code itself, and support vendor integration events with clear, testable interface documentation
• Produce developer and integrator reference material that is accurate to the implementation, including architecture and design documents, sequence and state diagrams, and configuration references
• Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit - working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process, and also relevant software tool procurement through definition requirements for things like authoring and publishing tools, spanning both our internal docs-as-code pipeline, including its static site generator, search, linting, and CI deployment, and our S1000D authoring and publishing environment
• Run the intake and triage path for documentation requests from across the program, and keep the published site accurate, navigable, and current release over release
• Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data-driven approach and consider input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions. You should be prepared to fill gaps that represent risks to the documentation roadmap
• Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time, mitigations are identified, and resources are allocated
• Support flight test and demonstration events by capturing procedures, configuration baselines, and lessons learned, and by turning test results into documentation updates
• Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating process and training for others to contribute content. Refine our product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step towards productization of new systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation, including documentation for software or software-intensive systems
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation, including interface and message definitions, schemas, and requirements artifacts, and comfort reading source code
• Experience building content in a variety of content authoring tools including word editors and specialized authoring software (e.g. Arbortext, RapidAuthor)
• Working knowledge of S1000D structured authoring, including data module development against a Common Source Data Base and applicable business rules
• Comfort working in a developer toolchain: Git-based version control and pull request review, Markdown or MDX, and documentation that builds and deploys through CI as part of a software pipeline
• 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
• Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US)

Nice to have

• Experience writing technical user-facing documentation
• Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD)
• Experience documenting uncrewed aircraft systems, autonomy or AI/ML software, flight software, or mission planning systems
• Familiarity with government reference architectures, applications, and interfaces for autonomy and collaborative combat aircraft (e.g. A-GRA, A-GRI), and with the message-level interfaces they define
• Hands-on experience with a documentation static site generator such as Docusaurus, MkDocs, or Sphinx, including sidebar and information architecture, search, and diagram-as-code tooling such as Mermaid
• Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (S1000D, MIL-STD-40051, etc), and with flight manual standards such as MIL-STD-38784 or MIL-DTL-7700
• Experience Documenting Software Release content in an Agile environment
• Experience supporting airworthiness, safety-of-flight, or test readiness review documentation

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
• At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.