IPD Technical Writer

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an IPD Technical Writer to partner with product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated documentation for aircraft interior systems. You will organize engineering and program delivery to ensure clear, user-friendly manuals, procedures, and guides.

Familiarity with MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D standards is highly desired as you lead documentation efforts across multiple programs and coordinates with account and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience creating manuals and guides for aerospace or defense products.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and BOMs.
• Familiarity with S1000D and MIL-STD-40051D documentation standards.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain IPD, WDM and ICA documents for aircraft interior products.
• Develop illustrations and technical graphics to support documentation.
• Analyze engineering drawings, BOMs, and change orders to extract component data.
• Convert 3D CAD models or 2D sketches into 2D line art, exploded views, and schematics.
• Ensure correct sequencing of assemblies and part numbers.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to verify data accuracy.
• Author manuals in compliance with S1000D and deliver customer-ready documents.

Skills

Technical writing

Documentation

MIL-STD-40051D

S1000D

Illustrations

BOM analysis

CAD interpretation

Tools

CAD tools awareness

Illustration software

MS Office

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril is a defense technology company, bringing Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector. Our technology helps our customers solve their toughest challenges by enabling them to make better, more informed decisions in life-and-death situations. We've assembled a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis that are creating software and hardware solutions to radically evolve the capabilities of the United States and our allies. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact, come join Anduril and build the future of defense.

Anduril's Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced technical writer to create and maintain user documentation across our diverse business lines. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of products, which are world-class.

ABOUT THE JOB

As an IPD Technical Writer, your mission is to partner with our numerous 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. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. As such, the technical writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.

With Anduril's focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the "arsenal of democracy." Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well written and presented artifacts.

You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. You will engage subject matter experts at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.

Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.

Along with our commercial offerings outlined above, Anduril is pursuing Programs with the GOV, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D, and S1000D, delivered via IADs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods, is highly desired.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Create, revise, and maintain IPD, WDM and ICA documents for aircraft interior products.
• Develop illustrations and technical graphics to support documentation.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, Bills of Material (BOM), and change orders to extract and organize component data.
• Convert complex 3D CAD models or 2D engineering sketches into 2D line art, exploded views, and schematics.
• Ensure proper sequencing of assemblies, list line-replaceable units, and update suitable interchangeable or substitute part numbers.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to verify the accuracy of the parts data
• Author and maintain manuals in compliance with S1000D.
• Generate review and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
• Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully...