Technical Writer (R5662)
Dallas · USD 85,000-120,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Dallas
- Salary
- USD 85,000-120,000 / year
About the role
- Shield AI is seeking an experienced V-BAT Technical Writer to support the development, release, and lifecycle management of aircraft system service bulletins.
- This is a hands-on technical publications role that works closely with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and field support teams to translate complex technical information into actionable communications.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, software, systems, quality, and fleet support engineers to develop and maintain accurate, actionable service bulletins.
- Develop step-by-step maintenance and inspection procedures that are technically accurate, safe, complete, and usable in operational environments.
- Observe and document maintenance, assembly, inspection, troubleshooting, ground-test, and flight-test activities to ensure procedures reflect actual work execution.
- Develop or coordinate supporting technical visuals, including annotated photographs, exploded views, system diagrams, task flows, and schematics.
- Assess the documentation impact of engineering changes, software releases, flight-test findings, and operational feedback to issue configuration-controlled updates.
- Determine and clearly document bulletin applicability, prerequisites, compliance requirements, labor estimates, required tools, consumables, and replacement parts.
- Write and maintain warnings, cautions, notes, limitations, and hazard statements associated with maintenance and aircraft configuration changes.
- Manage multiple service bulletin efforts across issue identification, engineering investigation, drafting, technical review, validation, release, revision, and field communication.
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews with engineering, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, flight operations, maintenance, training, and customer-support stakeholders.
- Research and interpret engineering artifacts, including drawings, bills of material, engineering change orders, and wiring diagrams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in maintenance documentation, service engineering, or technical writing in aerospace, defense, aviation, unmanned aircraft systems, or complex electromechanical systems.
- Demonstrated ability to create, revise, or technically validate maintenance procedures, troubleshooting instructions, operator procedures, or service bulletins.
- Experience developing maintenance instructions for aircraft systems, unmanned aircraft systems, avionics, propulsion systems, electrical systems, or mechanical assemblies.
- Practical working knowledge of aircraft or UAS systems, including mechanical, electrical, avionics, propulsion, payload, and mission-system interfaces.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, BOMs, CAD outputs, schematics, system architectures, and engineering changes.
- Proven ability to work directly with engineers, quality personnel, maintainers, and flight-test teams to obtain, validate, and document technical information.
- Demonstrated ability to produce clear, sequential, user-focused procedures for inspection, removal, installation, modification, troubleshooting, and testing.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and organizational skills focused on technical accuracy, clarity, completeness, and usability.
- Experience working in a configuration-managed product environment with controlled document revisions, technical reviews, and formal approvals.
Preferred qualifications
- FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) certificate, military aviation maintenance specialty, or equivalent civilian or military aircraft maintenance experience.
- Experience maintaining, troubleshooting, inspecting, or supporting fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, UAS, or other autonomous or robotic platforms.
- Experience supporting corrective-action, reliability, quality, safety, or fleet-support programs.
- Familiarity with ATA iSpec 2200, S1000D, MIL-STD-40051, MIL-STD-38784, MIL-STD-1808, or comparable technical-publication frameworks.
- Background supporting developmental test, operational test, flight test, field sustainment, deployed operations, depot maintenance, or field-service operations.
- Experience using PLM, document-control, change-control, configuration-management, requirements-management, or engineering-release systems.
- Experience with Adobe FrameMaker, Arbortext, XML/DITA, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Visio, or comparable authoring and illustration tools.
- Experience developing or managing technical illustrations, wiring diagrams, and other maintenance graphics.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees)
Skills
- Technical Writing
- Aircraft Systems
- Maintenance Documentation
- Service Engineering
- Engineering Drawings
- CAD
- ATA iSpec 2200
- S1000D
- XML
- DITA
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Arbortext
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- Microsoft Office
- Visio
