Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.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.
Team Overview
The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril’s fastest growing divisions whose goal is to fundamentally reshape the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation software enabled collaborative air combat weapons. Our division develops, builds, and tests collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these collaborative robots.
Role Specifics
We are seeking a Technical Writer that will be responsible for producing software engineering documentation for Anduril’s software products that enable third party vendors to rapidly integrate their robots within Anduril’s Lattice platform. As a technical writer, you will be responsible to self-manage the technical writing process, collaborating with software engineers, product managers, vendors and third party capability providers as necessary to produce usable, easy to understand artifacts. The ideal candidate will have previous experiences establishing documentation style guides and delivering a variety of documents types to include interface control documents (ICDs), architecture descriptions, workflow processes/diagrams, and user guides.
Required Qualifications
- Lead technical writing initiatives for Mission Autonomy products, transforming complex technical and operational context into easily comprehensible documentation and artifacts.
- Engage with SMEs, both internal and external, to drive clear decomposition and articulation of the technology and its relevance to a variety of audiences.
- Leverage research techniques to define target user groups, appropriate information hierarchy, etc.
- Develop and maintain subject matter expertise in Air Dominance- specific workflows, ensuring that documentation is grounded in a deep understanding of operational context, engineering and user needs.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, engineers, designers and cross-functional teams to ensure crafted artifacts meet strategic objectives and user needs.
- Experience writing easy-to-understand technical artifacts including system functionality overviews, system diagrams, and package ICDs/APIs for release.
- Work with consumers of technical documentation (third-parties and USG personnel) to receive feedback on improvements, and then prioritize and execute improvements.
- Proven ability to convey feedback back into the engineering organization to drive product improvements.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in technical writing, information architecture & design or related field with a focus on complex systems or products.
- Proven ability to translate technical and domain specific information into relevant user-centric technical artifacts.
- Demonstrated ability to shape the overall approach/mentality to documentation of the team.
- Ability to drive the collective documentation process independently while engaging stakeholders and team members effectively.
- Capacity to work in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple projects and priorities.
- Comfortable embedding within the engineering community to understand the technical aspects of how engineering services, architectures, and products function.
- Willingness to travel as needed to engage with users and stakeholders (up to 25%)
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated aptitude across a broad range of product types (internal tools, customer-facing applications/products, tools for technical customers).
- Experience in defense, aerospace, or other related fields, with an insight into the operational context of the users.
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates the ability to decompose technical complexity into audience appropriate documentation artifacts.
- Self-starter with the ability to successfully navigate through ambiguity and loosely defined organizational structures.
US Salary Range
$154,000—$231,000 USD
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:
- Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer top tier platinum coverage (medical, dental, vision) that are 100% covered by Anduril for you and 90% covered for your dependents.
- For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
- For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
- 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
- Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
- A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
- Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
- Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
- 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!
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Anduril is a defense products company. Unlike most defense companies, we don’t wait for our customers to tell us what they need. We identify problems, privately fund our R&D and sell finished products off the shelf. Ideas are turned into deployed capabilities in months, not years.
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