Responsibilities

Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: mission planning, execution, and debrief user guides; autonomy task and behavior overviews; deployment, configuration, and management manuals; message and API reference catalogs; architecture and design documents; integration and test procedures; flight manual and checklist inputs; glossaries; and release notes. You will partner with ILS, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available, including the third-party air vehicle and ground control vendors who integrate against our autonomy interfaces.
Another critical aspect of this role is to build the infrastructure and tooling needed for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale. This role spans two authoring environments, and you will be fluent in both. Internally, we run a docs-as-code pipeline so that technical documentation stays aligned with engineering. For customer and contract deliverables, we author structured content in S1000D using RapidAuthor against our Common Source Data Base. A significant part of your charter is keeping these two environments coherent, so that engineering-authored source content flows into formal deliverables without being rewritten from scratch. This structure will enable technical writing contributions from elsewhere across the business. In this role, you will co-lead efforts to define requirements, identify software solutions, and then implement them while also building process and training to scale this function across other teams.
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.

Qualification

Military exposure and experienceExperience supporting airworthiness

Required

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)

Preferred

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

Sr. Technical Writer, Mission Autonomy at Anduril Industries · LumiJobs

Sr. Technical Writer, Mission Autonomy

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