Software Technical Writer, Anduril Industries

• 2+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for an opinionated audience
• Experience reading and interpreting API documentation
• Basic development proficiency - we value the ability to apply software development best practices to documentation systems
• A passion for excellent documentation and user experiences
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication skills, for a variety of audiences
• The ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, managing competing demands and occasional tight deadlines
• Must be a U.S. Person because of required access to U.S. export controlled information

Desirable

• Anduril is seeking an experienced technical writer to partner with our platform product group to generate and maintain engineering and developer-focused technical documentation
• The team strongly believes that documentation is a key part of the product development process
• In this role you will work closely with users to understand how they use our products, identify gaps in understanding, and use documentation to close the gap
• You will be play a foundational role in setting the tone and quality bar on written artifacts, as well as helping to grow the technical documentation function as a whole at Anduril
• With our focus on defense and national security, product docs play a critical role in ensuring that front-line decision makers have the best tools and information possible about Anduril systems
• As a Technical Writer, your mission is to make this process as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally written and presented artifacts, while building world-class infrastructure and tooling for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale
• Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: user guides, release notes, troubleshooting guides, and API documentation
• You will partner with engineering, product management, and the business across all phases of product development — from ground truth need-finding, to execution, to field testing and validation — to ensure that the user has the right documentation available
• This is an opportunity to join a small and scrappy team to help shape Anduril’s product documentation experience from the ground up
• Build partnerships across the business to understand our users and our products, with specific focus on the services built and supported by the platform software product group
• Generate, review, and edit documentation, that is user-focused and of the highest quality
• Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit, working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process
• Work with engineering to ship a user-facing docs surface area and internal infrastructure that encourages contribution to documentation by providing a delightful user experience