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Programmer Writer

Anduril
Seattle, Washington, United States
$100K-$192K a year
Full-time

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.

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.

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • 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

WHO YOU ARE

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Clearance-eligibility a nice to have but not required for this role

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise.

This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

US Salary Range$100,000 $192,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only.

Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and / or training, critical skills, and / or business considerations.

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.

Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including :

Platinum Healthcare Benefits : For U.S. roles, we offer top tier platinum coverage (medical, dental, vision) that are 100% covered by Anduril for you and 90% covered for your dependents.

For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI) : Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.

For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa : Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.

  • Basic Life / AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
  • Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
  • 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
  • Family Planning & Parenting Support : Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
  • Mental Health Resources : We provide free mental health resources 24 / 7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
  • A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
  • Daily Meals and Provisions : For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
  • Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
  • Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology.

All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process.

If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!

To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit .

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