Sr. Technical Writer, Mission AutonomyActive$196K
The opportunity
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- 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
