Technical Writer

Location: Washington, DC - Remote

Department: Research

Compensation: $50-80/hour

Hours: 10-20 hours/week

Team & Position Details: 

As a Contract Technical Writer, you will report to a Solutions Architect on Virtrus Standards team. Virtru actively contributes to the development of international data-centric security standards across US, NATO, and FVEY bodies. This role accelerates our standards document production and ensures Virtrus contributions meet the rigor and formatting conventions of multinational standards organizations. Your writing will directly shape how allied nations protect and share sensitive data.

As a Technical Writer, your responsibilities will include:

• Draft and refine technical prose for international cryptographic key management and data security standards, ensuring compliance with NATO and allied publication conventions (e.g., ADatP, ACP formatting).
• Document interoperability test plans, results, and technical findings for bilateral partner engagements and multinational exercises.
• Prepare technical white papers, position papers, and briefing materials supporting government research partnerships and standards body meetings.
• Translate engineering feedback and subject matter expert input into publication-ready, standards-quality language.
• Support preparation of written contributions for recurring virtual and in-person standards writing sessions.
• Prepare test scenario descriptions and technical reports for multinational interoperability exercises.
• Draft response documents for standards community review and comment periods.
• Assist in producing reference documents that unify Virtrus technical positions across multiple standards engagement tracks into a coherent narrative.

Skills that will help you thrive in this role:

• Demonstrated experience writing or editing technical standards, specifications, or policy documents for government or multinational organizations.
• Strong command of precise, unambiguous technical prose — the kind found in RFCs, STANAGs, or MIL-STDs.
• Ability to work from engineering notes, meeting recordings, and SME interviews to produce publication-ready drafts.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with NATO standards processes (STANAGs, ADatPs, Allied publications) or Five Eyes/CCEB publication conventions (ACPs).
• Background in cybersecurity, zero trust architecture, or cross-domain solutions.
• Familiarity with cryptographic concepts, key management, and/or data security at a conceptual level.
• Active or recently held US security clearance (Secret or above).

Virtruvian qualities that will set you up for success:

• Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
• Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
• Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
• Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

Virtru is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Virtru is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.