Lead Technical Writer, Maritime & Undersea SystemsActive$194K

The opportunity

As a Lead Technical Writer, your mission is to partner with our Maritime Product and Operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission.

What you'll do

  • Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with: Engineering and Operations to deliver task-, condition-, and standard-centric documentation.

  • Research Anduril products, scope Tech Data deliverables for Programs of: Record with DoD customers, and write Data Modules in S1000D XML using RapidAuthor.

  • Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product: documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decisions for the company by using a data-driven approach and considering input from stakeholders. 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.

  • Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating processes and: training for others to contribute content. Refine our product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step toward the productization of new systems.

What they're looking for

  • Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical: documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (S1000D, MIL-STD-40051, etc.).
  • Previous experience creating technical documentation for Naval or maritime hardware products (for DoD).
  • Experience documenting software UIs in an Agile environment.