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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.
*** THIS ROLE IS ON-SITE IN COSTA MESA, CA. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED ***
ABOUT THE TEAM
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 our products, which are world-class.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Technical Publications Specialist - Advanced Effects (also known internally as a 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 complex hardware and software 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 government, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D, delivered via IETMs / IETDs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods is highly desired.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, and standard-centric documentation.
- 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 considering input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions.
- Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time and shared with leadership.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process, ensuring that those who come after you learn from your acquired Anduril experience.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for complex hardware, software, or aerospace systems.
- Experience writing technical, user-facing documentation.
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation (e.g., schematics, CAD, or software specs).
- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, DITA, etc.).
- Strong written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on explaining highly technical subjects simply.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc.).
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
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:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com.
Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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.
*** THIS ROLE IS ON-SITE IN COSTA MESA, CA. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED ***
ABOUT THE TEAM
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 our products, which are world-class.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Technical Publications Specialist - Advanced Effects (also known internally as a 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 complex hardware and software 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 government, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D, delivered via IETMs / IETDs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods is highly desired.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, and standard-centric documentation.
- 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 considering input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions.
- Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time and shared with leadership.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process, ensuring that those who come after you learn from your acquired Anduril experience.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for complex hardware, software, or aerospace systems.
- Experience writing technical, user-facing documentation.
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation (e.g., schematics, CAD, or software specs).
- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, DITA, etc.).
- Strong written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on explaining highly technical subjects simply.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc.).
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
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:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com.
Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in publications specialist jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in communications, English, journalism, or a related field
- Proficiency in desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign or similar tools
- Strong copyediting and proofreading skills with knowledge of a major style guide
- Experience managing end-to-end production of print or digital publications
- Ability to coordinate with writers, designers, and stakeholders under deadline pressure
- Familiarity with content management systems and digital distribution platforms
Tips for Your Publications Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume for each listing
Publications specialist postings vary widely by output type. A role focused on annual reports needs different resume emphasis than one centered on academic journals. Match your bullet points to the exact deliverables and tools named in each job description.
Build a portfolio with output variety
Hiring managers want to see finished publications, not just job titles. Include print layouts, digital PDFs, style guides, and edited manuscripts. If your work is behind organizational firewalls, prepare sanitized samples or describe projects with concrete scope details.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists publications specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by content type
Filter openings by the publication format that matches your experience, whether that is regulatory documents, member newsletters, peer-reviewed journals, or marketing collateral. Applying to roles that match your output background puts your portfolio in the strongest possible context.
Prepare for a skills-based editing test
Many publications specialist interviews include a timed copyediting or proofreading exercise. Practice working quickly in the style guide most common in your target sector, AP for communications roles and Chicago for academic or book publishing roles.
Negotiate scope, not just salary
Publications specialist offers can differ significantly in workload and autonomy. Before accepting, clarify publication volume per cycle, approval layers, and whether you own the style guide or inherit one. These factors shape day-to-day work more than title does.
Publications Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most publications specialists?
The most active employers for publications specialists right now are Boeing, Anduril, and Trinzic, and the most openings are in Utah, Hawaii, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to be steady in government agencies, universities, and large nonprofits that publish reports and member communications on regular cycles.
How many publications specialist jobs are remote?
About 50% of publications specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the digital nature of much of the work. Editorial coordination, copyediting, and digital content production roles tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions tied to print production oversight or in-house design labs are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a publications specialist?
Start with a degree in communications, English, journalism, or a related writing-intensive field, then build hands-on experience through internships, campus publications, or freelance editing work. Develop proficiency in desktop publishing software and learn a major style guide like AP or Chicago thoroughly. A portfolio of finished publications is what moves candidates past the screening stage, so prioritize producing complete projects over collecting job titles.
How do I get hired as a publications specialist with little experience?
Focus on building a concrete portfolio before applying. Volunteer to manage newsletters or reports for student organizations, nonprofits, or community groups, and treat each project as a professional sample. Apply for editorial assistant or publications coordinator roles that explicitly list training as part of the position, and emphasize your style guide knowledge and attention to detail in both your resume and cover letter.
What does the publications specialist interview process look like?
Most employers conduct a phone or video screen focused on your publication experience and tools, followed by an in-person or second-round interview with the hiring manager and sometimes a team lead. A timed copyediting or proofreading exercise is common at mid-process. Final rounds often include a portfolio review and a conversation about workflow, deadlines, and how you manage revisions from multiple stakeholders.
Where can I find and apply to publications specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to publications specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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