Technical Writer

Nominal
About Nominal
Nominal is building the software infrastructure powering the world’s most advanced hardware systems — from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex autonomy software in real time, and enables engineers to iterate faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on challenges at the intersection of hardware and software.
As a dual-use platform, we serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Shield AI, and Anduril. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures. Our team draws experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies — united by a common mission: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision.
Documentation at Nominal is a working surface of the product. It is how engineers engage with system capabilities, how test teams verify understanding, and how programs scale knowledge across teams and time. As the platform grows in complexity and breadth, our documentation must evolve with it. It must rigorously explain core primitives and complex applications, maintain grounding in first principles, and adapt to the wide and growing variety of missions, environments, and customers that Nominal serves.
As a Technical Writer, you’ll build and maintain the system of documentation that supports every Nominal user, from test engineers and operators to analysts and enterprise teams. This is a cross-functional role responsible for defining how we communicate the structure, function, and application of a technically deep and rapidly evolving platform. The right person will bring clarity, rigor, and empathy to a broad set of artifacts and help shape how people learn, adapt, and succeed with Nominal.

🚀 About the role

  • Build and maintain a clear, organized, and durable body of documentation that supports users from initial setup through operational deployment.
  • Create technical artifacts such as integration guides, user manuals, field references, video walkthroughs, and online support materials.
  • All documentation must reflect a high level of technical depth and operational detail, tailored to real-world use.
  • Work closely with engineering, mission operations, data integration, and growth teams to understand features at the source.
  • Capturing the core value of new product features and surfacing the questions users actually ask.
  • Help bring structure and consistency to a rapidly evolving and complex product(s).
  • Write with a deep respect for users who operate under high stakes and time pressure, where ambiguity is not an option.

🎯 What we’re looking for

  • Proven skill in writing and editing user-facing technical documentation to a high standard of clarity, correctness, and completeness.
  • Sound editorial judgment, with the ability to identify imprecise language, correct technical inaccuracies, and improve structure without introducing error.
  • Ability to write technically accurate product updates for a knowledgeable user base, delivered on a regular cadence.
  • Ability to read and write Python code, TypeScript code, and YAML configuration at a level sufficient to understand, verify, and document feature behavior.
  • Experience with git-based workflows and Markdown or structured documentation systems.
  • Familiarity with common patterns of API usage, client libraries, CLI interfaces, and configuration workflows.
  • Comfort working closely with engineers, designers, mission teams, and sales staff without direct reporting authority.
  • Capacity to work independently, maintain momentum through ambiguity, and scale repeated efforts into resilient systems and processes.

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

  • Experience introducing editorial standards and enforcing them through review, revision, and example.
  • Previous ownership of documentation for a production system, including versioning, release notes, and long-term maintainability.
  • Experience supporting or building tools used in autonomy, flight tests, or systems integration.
  • Familiarity with front-end architectures (especially React) and the ability to trace data and control flow through a modern web interface.
  • Working knowledge of Java and Rust code at a level sufficient to understand, verify, and document feature behavior.
  • Familiarity with the requirements and constraints of users working in simulation, test, or operational environments.

✨ Benefits/Perks

  • 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
  • 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
  • 🚀 Professional Development Stipend
  • ✈️ Annual company retreat

This job description is written to capture a range of experience levels from 2 years to 15+ years, which is why you’ll see a wide band listed. Your actual base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on a range of considerations, including job-related knowledge and skills, education, prior experience, and other business needs. The listed salary range represents an estimate for base compensation only. Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package. Eligible employees may also receive highly competitive equity grants in the form of stock options, allowing you to share in the company’s long-term success.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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Technical Writer

Nominal
About Nominal
Nominal is building the software infrastructure powering the world’s most advanced hardware systems — from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex autonomy software in real time, and enables engineers to iterate faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on challenges at the intersection of hardware and software.
As a dual-use platform, we serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Shield AI, and Anduril. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures. Our team draws experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies — united by a common mission: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision.
Documentation at Nominal is a working surface of the product. It is how engineers engage with system capabilities, how test teams verify understanding, and how programs scale knowledge across teams and time. As the platform grows in complexity and breadth, our documentation must evolve with it. It must rigorously explain core primitives and complex applications, maintain grounding in first principles, and adapt to the wide and growing variety of missions, environments, and customers that Nominal serves.
As a Technical Writer, you’ll build and maintain the system of documentation that supports every Nominal user, from test engineers and operators to analysts and enterprise teams. This is a cross-functional role responsible for defining how we communicate the structure, function, and application of a technically deep and rapidly evolving platform. The right person will bring clarity, rigor, and empathy to a broad set of artifacts and help shape how people learn, adapt, and succeed with Nominal.

🚀 About the role

  • Build and maintain a clear, organized, and durable body of documentation that supports users from initial setup through operational deployment.
  • Create technical artifacts such as integration guides, user manuals, field references, video walkthroughs, and online support materials.
  • All documentation must reflect a high level of technical depth and operational detail, tailored to real-world use.
  • Work closely with engineering, mission operations, data integration, and growth teams to understand features at the source.
  • Capturing the core value of new product features and surfacing the questions users actually ask.
  • Help bring structure and consistency to a rapidly evolving and complex product(s).
  • Write with a deep respect for users who operate under high stakes and time pressure, where ambiguity is not an option.

🎯 What we’re looking for

  • Proven skill in writing and editing user-facing technical documentation to a high standard of clarity, correctness, and completeness.
  • Sound editorial judgment, with the ability to identify imprecise language, correct technical inaccuracies, and improve structure without introducing error.
  • Ability to write technically accurate product updates for a knowledgeable user base, delivered on a regular cadence.
  • Ability to read and write Python code, TypeScript code, and YAML configuration at a level sufficient to understand, verify, and document feature behavior.
  • Experience with git-based workflows and Markdown or structured documentation systems.
  • Familiarity with common patterns of API usage, client libraries, CLI interfaces, and configuration workflows.
  • Comfort working closely with engineers, designers, mission teams, and sales staff without direct reporting authority.
  • Capacity to work independently, maintain momentum through ambiguity, and scale repeated efforts into resilient systems and processes.

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

  • Experience introducing editorial standards and enforcing them through review, revision, and example.
  • Previous ownership of documentation for a production system, including versioning, release notes, and long-term maintainability.
  • Experience supporting or building tools used in autonomy, flight tests, or systems integration.
  • Familiarity with front-end architectures (especially React) and the ability to trace data and control flow through a modern web interface.
  • Working knowledge of Java and Rust code at a level sufficient to understand, verify, and document feature behavior.
  • Familiarity with the requirements and constraints of users working in simulation, test, or operational environments.

✨ Benefits/Perks

  • 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
  • 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
  • 🚀 Professional Development Stipend
  • ✈️ Annual company retreat

This job description is written to capture a range of experience levels from 2 years to 15+ years, which is why you’ll see a wide band listed. Your actual base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on a range of considerations, including job-related knowledge and skills, education, prior experience, and other business needs. The listed salary range represents an estimate for base compensation only. Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package. Eligible employees may also receive highly competitive equity grants in the form of stock options, allowing you to share in the company’s long-term success.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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Technical Writer

Nominal
About Nominal
Nominal is building the software infrastructure powering the world’s most advanced hardware systems — from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex autonomy software in real time, and enables engineers to iterate faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on challenges at the intersection of hardware and software.
As a dual-use platform, we serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Shield AI, and Anduril. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures. Our team draws experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies — united by a common mission: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision.
Documentation at Nominal is a working surface of the product. It is how engineers engage with system capabilities, how test teams verify understanding, and how programs scale knowledge across teams and time. As the platform grows in complexity and breadth, our documentation must evolve with it. It must rigorously explain core primitives and complex applications, maintain grounding in first principles, and adapt to the wide and growing variety of missions, environments, and customers that Nominal serves.
As a Technical Writer, you’ll build and maintain the system of documentation that supports every Nominal user, from test engineers and operators to analysts and enterprise teams. This is a cross-functional role responsible for defining how we communicate the structure, function, and application of a technically deep and rapidly evolving platform. The right person will bring clarity, rigor, and empathy to a broad set of artifacts and help shape how people learn, adapt, and succeed with Nominal.

🚀 About the role

  • Build and maintain a clear, organized, and durable body of documentation that supports users from initial setup through operational deployment.
  • Create technical artifacts such as integration guides, user manuals, field references, video walkthroughs, and online support materials.
  • All documentation must reflect a high level of technical depth and operational detail, tailored to real-world use.
  • Work closely with engineering, mission operations, data integration, and growth teams to understand features at the source.
  • Capturing the core value of new product features and surfacing the questions users actually ask.
  • Help bring structure and consistency to a rapidly evolving and complex product(s).
  • Write with a deep respect for users who operate under high stakes and time pressure, where ambiguity is not an option.

🎯 What we’re looking for

  • Proven skill in writing and editing user-facing technical documentation to a high standard of clarity, correctness, and completeness.
  • Sound editorial judgment, with the ability to identify imprecise language, correct technical inaccuracies, and improve structure without introducing error.
  • Ability to write technically accurate product updates for a knowledgeable user base, delivered on a regular cadence.
  • Ability to read and write Python code, TypeScript code, and YAML configuration at a level sufficient to understand, verify, and document feature behavior.
  • Experience with git-based workflows and Markdown or structured documentation systems.
  • Familiarity with common patterns of API usage, client libraries, CLI interfaces, and configuration workflows.
  • Comfort working closely with engineers, designers, mission teams, and sales staff without direct reporting authority.
  • Capacity to work independently, maintain momentum through ambiguity, and scale repeated efforts into resilient systems and processes.

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

  • Experience introducing editorial standards and enforcing them through review, revision, and example.
  • Previous ownership of documentation for a production system, including versioning, release notes, and long-term maintainability.
  • Experience supporting or building tools used in autonomy, flight tests, or systems integration.
  • Familiarity with front-end architectures (especially React) and the ability to trace data and control flow through a modern web interface.
  • Working knowledge of Java and Rust code at a level sufficient to understand, verify, and document feature behavior.
  • Familiarity with the requirements and constraints of users working in simulation, test, or operational environments.

✨ Benefits/Perks

  • 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
  • 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
  • 🚀 Professional Development Stipend
  • ✈️ Annual company retreat

This job description is written to capture a range of experience levels from 2 years to 15+ years, which is why you’ll see a wide band listed. Your actual base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on a range of considerations, including job-related knowledge and skills, education, prior experience, and other business needs. The listed salary range represents an estimate for base compensation only. Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package. Eligible employees may also receive highly competitive equity grants in the form of stock options, allowing you to share in the company’s long-term success.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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Technical Writer

AHEAD

Location Type: remote

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 
A Security Technical Writer will play a crucial part in supporting our cybersecurity initiatives by producing clear, comprehensive, and accurate technical documentation for a variety of customer-facing and internal audiences. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining a wide range of documents, including but not limited to: Security practice standards and procedures, incident response guides, technical manuals, system architecture overviews, user guides for security tools, and compliance documentation aligned with industry frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and others. 
 
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both technical writing and cybersecurity concepts, with the ability to translate complex technical information into easy-to-understand content. You will collaborate closely with security engineers, analysts, and risk / compliance professionals to gather accurate and timely information for your documentation efforts. Additionally, you will help standardize documentation practices, ensure consistent formatting and terminology, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our knowledge-sharing processes. 
 
This role requires someone who is proactive, self-directed, and capable of managing multiple projects under tight deadlines. A strong understanding of the cybersecurity landscape—including threat modeling, risk assessment, data protection, and secure systems design—is highly valuable.  

Key Responsibilities

  • The following are the expectations of a Security Technical Writer: 

  • Client Delivery 
  • Develop clear, concise, and accurate documentation related to cybersecurity operations, including: 
  • Security policies and standards 
  • System architecture diagrams 
  • Incident response playbooks 
  • Compliance documentation (e.g. NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2) 
  • User and administrator guides for security tools 
  • Translate complex technical concepts into easy-to-understand content for various audiences (technical and non-technical). 
  • Work closely with cybersecurity teams to gather information and validate documentation. 
  • Ensure all documentation is up to date and aligns with organizational policies and regulatory requirements. 
  • Create and maintain templates and documentation standards. 
  • Assist in the development of training materials and internal communications related to cybersecurity awareness. 

 
  • Technical Mastery 
  • Documentation Tools: Proficient with documentation platforms such as Confluence, SharePoint, Git/GitHub, Markdown, and Microsoft Office Suite 
  • Security Tools (familiarity required): Experience documenting tools like SIEMs (e.g., Splunk, QRadar), endpoint protection systems, vulnerability scanners (e.g., Qualys, Nessus), firewalls, identity and access management (IAM) solutions, and cloud security platforms (e.g., AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center) 
  • Writing Standards: Strong knowledge of style guides (e.g., Microsoft Manual of Style, APA, Chicago Manual) and documentation best practices 
  • Diagramming Tools: Proficiency in tools like Lucidchart, Draw.io, or Visio for architecture and data flow diagrams 
  • Markup Languages (a plus): Familiarity with XML & Markdown 

Domain Experience Required

  • Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Strong understanding of core cybersecurity principles, including threat modeling, risk assessment, encryption, access control, vulnerability management, and incident response 
  • Compliance Frameworks: Hands-on experience documenting against security standards such as: 
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NIST SP 800-53, NIST 800-171 
  • ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002 
  • PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, etc. 
  • Industry Context (Preferred): Prior experience working in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, technology, or government contracting 
  • Cloud Security (Preferred): Knowledge of cloud-native security controls, cloud shared responsibility model, and cloud platform compliance (AWS, Azure, GCP) 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Technical Writing, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field. 
  • 5 years of experience in technical writing, preferably within a cybersecurity or IT environment. 
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, frameworks, and tools (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, IAM, etc.). 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. 

Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include: 
– Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 
– 401(k) 
– Paid company holidays 
– Paid time off 
– Paid parental and caregiver leave 
– Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. 
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.  

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