Senior Technical Writer — Autonomy Software & Defense Docs

Content Creators; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior technical writer to craft and maintain autonomy software documentation. You will partner with autonomy, platform integration, and flight test teams to document integration, configuration, and operation of Anduril’s Mission Autonomy software.

The role focuses on organizing engineering and program delivery functions, ensuring clear, actionable guides across systems, and aligning to government reference architectures while supporting contract deliverables.

Qualifications

• 5+ years generating technical documentation for software or software-intensive systems.
• Ability to read engineering docs, schemas, and requirements artifacts.
• Experience with Arbortext or RapidAuthor and S1000D is preferred.
• Familiar with Git-based workflows and CI deployment of docs.
• Strong written and verbal communication with strong project management.

Responsibilities

• Generate, review, and edit user-focused documentation for autonomy software.
• Document behaviors, operating modes, and failure handling for users/integrators.
• Own interface/reference docs for autonomy stack from government interfaces and source code.
• Produce developer reference material: architecture, diagrams, and configuration references.
• Contribute to documentation toolkit, style guides, and tooling across pipelines.
• Manage intake/triage for documentation requests and keep site current.
• Prioritize tasks to support product documentation and mitigate roadmap risks.
• Communicate expectations, manage risks, and allocate resources.
• Support flight test/demonstrations by documenting procedures and lessons learned.
• Build culture of technical documentation and scale through processes and training.

Skills

Technical writing

Software documentation

Documentation tooling

Git

Communication

Tools

Arbortext

RapidAuthor

S1000D

CI pipelines

Markdown

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior technical writer to craft and maintain autonomy software documentation. You will partner with autonomy, platform integration, and flight test teams to document integration, configuration, and operation of Anduril’s Mission Autonomy software.

The role focuses on organizing engineering and program delivery functions, ensuring clear, actionable guides across systems, and aligning to government reference architectures while supporting contract deliverables.