Autonomy Documentation Lead for Mission Systems

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Technical Writer to partner with the Mission Autonomy and flight test teams to deliver accurate, user‑focused documentation for our autonomy software. You will document integration, configuration, and operation across interfaces, ensuring clarity and traceability.

This role requires experience reading engineering docs, writing for software‑heavy systems, and fluency with docs‑as‑code workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for software or software-intensive systems.
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation, schemas, and requirements artifacts, and comfort reading source code.
• Experience building content in tools including Arbortext and RapidAuthor.
• Working knowledge of Git-based version control, Markdown/MDX, and CI-driven documentation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused for autonomy software.
• Document autonomy behaviors, operating modes, and failure handling for predictable system responses.
• Own interface and message reference documentation for the autonomy stack and support vendor integration events.
• Produce developer and integrator reference material including architecture and design documents and configuration references.

Skills

Technical writing

Engineering docs literacy

Strong communication

CI/CD familiarity

Tools

RapidAuthor

Arbortext

Git

Markdown

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Technical Writer to partner with the Mission Autonomy and flight test teams to deliver accurate, user‑focused documentation for our autonomy software. You will document integration, configuration, and operation across interfaces, ensuring clarity and traceability.

This role requires experience reading engineering docs, writing for software‑heavy systems, and fluency with docs‑as‑code workflows.