Technical Writer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Burlingame, California, United States. Some travel between geographically distributed engineering and manufacturing sites may be required. U.S. roles require U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, or another protected-individual status under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Salary: $130,000–$150,000 per year, plus potential equity.

Company

Develops Pulsar, a Low Earth Orbit satellite infrastructure platform for precise, resilient global positioning and navigational intelligence.

What you will do

• Create and maintain engineering documentation across spacecraft bus, payload, Guidance Navigation and Control, flight software, and subsystem teams.
• Attend design reviews and translate engineering input into interface control documents, test procedures, design specifications, and review packages.
• Own the organization, tracking, approval, and delivery of launch campaign documentation, including readiness reviews, mission assurance materials, range safety submissions, and launch reports.
• Prepare contract deliverables, reports, data packages, compliance documents, and documentation supporting FCC/NOAA licensing and orbital debris mitigation.
• Develop service-level agreements, escalation paths, system configuration documentation, manufacturing work instructions, and standard operating procedures.
• Establish document-control systems, templates, versioning standards, and processes across distributed engineering and manufacturing sites.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of technical writing experience in aerospace, defense, hardware manufacturing, or a similarly technical field.
• Experience working directly with engineers to extract technical content and produce accurate, actionable documentation.
• Ability to create documentation templates and review technical content for clarity, consistency, and accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple documentation workstreams independently in a fast-moving environment.
• For this U.S. role, eligibility under U.S. space technology export regulations is required.
• Ability to ask clarifying questions and resolve unclear requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience documenting spacecraft, satellite, or precision hardware development programs.
• Experience managing documentation for launch campaigns or other high-stakes review cycles.
• Experience supporting PDR, CDR, MRR, or similar program reviews.
• Proficiency with Confluence, Google Workspace, or similar documentation tools.
• Familiarity with manufacturing work instructions, SOPs, quality management systems, or program management.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional work spanning engineering, launch, manufacturing, safety, program, and operations teams.
• Opportunity to establish documentation systems and standards as the program scales.
• Equity may be included in the compensation package.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.