Specification Writer

Anguleris Technologies · Elgin, IL or Remote · Full-time · Project Delivery

The short version

Anguleris is a 15-year, architect-founded construction technology company and the parent of BIMsmith, Swatchbox, Modlar, Archbase, and Gaudi AI. We help building product manufacturers get their products into the hands, models, and project manuals of architects.

You'll write the guide specifications that make that happen. Working directly with our manufacturer customers, you'll turn product data, test reports, and installation instructions into clean, accurate three-part guide specs that an architect or spec writer can drop into a project manual and edit with confidence. A good guide spec gets a product specified. A bad one gets it deleted. That's the bar.

Why this role, why now

Specification is where products are won or lost, often quietly, months before anyone places an order. Too many manufacturer guide specs are thin, outdated, or marketing copy wearing a SectionFormat costume, and the spec writers who receive them know it immediately. Manufacturers who give architects a genuinely useful spec earn trust that compounds across every project that spec touches. This role is how our customers earn that trust.

What you'll own

Writing. You'll author and revise three-part guide specifications (Part 1 General, Part 2 Products, Part 3 Execution) to CSI MasterFormat and SectionFormat conventions. That means correct section numbers and titles, accurate references to ASTM, ANSI, UL, and other standards, submittal and quality assurance requirements that make sense, and Part 3 execution language that reflects how the product is actually installed.

The architect's perspective. You'll write for the person editing the spec, not the person selling the product: clear editor's notes, sensible options and bracketed choices, honest performance criteria, and language that holds up on a real project.

Manufacturer collaboration. You'll work with product managers, technical services teams, and marketing at our manufacturer customers to pull out what the spec needs: product lines, options, test data, certifications, installation requirements, warranty terms. You'll ask the questions they didn't know to answer, and push back, respectfully, when a claim can't be supported.

Quality and consistency. You'll review existing specs and catch outdated references, conflicting requirements, and unsupported claims, then bring them up to standard. Our spec standards are living documents. When you find a better convention or a recurring failure pattern, you'll improve the standard, not just the section.

Throughput with care. This is production work with real volume and real deadlines across many manufacturers and product categories. The twentieth section of the month has to be as precise as the first.

Who does well here

You understand construction documents and how specifications function on a project. Experience writing specs at an architecture or engineering firm, or technical writing for a building product manufacturer, is the most direct path. Familiarity with MasterSpec, SpecLink, or similar master guide spec systems is a plus. CSI certification (CCS or CDT) is preferred but not required; we care more about whether your specs are good. The pattern:

• You're precise. "Shall" versus "should," a superseded ASTM date, a Part 2 option with no matching Part 3 requirement: these things bother you before anyone points them out.
• You know your audience. You can tell the difference between a spec an architect will use and one they'll quietly delete, and you write the first kind.
• You're honest. You won't write a performance claim the test data doesn't support, and you can tell a customer why in a way that keeps the relationship intact.
• You close loops. Every section you touch ends in a known state: delivered, in review, or blocked with a clear note on what's needed and from whom.
• You're humble, hungry, and people-smart. All three, no exceptions. You take redlines without bristling, improve the process without being asked, and work with manufacturer teams in a way that makes them want to send you the next product line.

What this role is not

• It is not copywriting. A guide spec is a technical document that ends up in a contract. If the product is good, the spec proves it with data, not adjectives.
• It is not template filling. Swapping a product name into last year's section is not specification writing. Every section reflects the actual product.
• It is not a back-office seat. You'll be in direct conversation with manufacturer customers, and you'll represent Anguleris's standards in those conversations.

Practical details

• Full-time, based at our Elgin, IL headquarters or remote.
• You'll work daily with our Project Delivery team and with technical and product teams at our manufacturer customers, alongside PMs who own the client relationships.
• Compensation: competitive salary, commensurate with experience.

How to apply

Skip the generic cover letter. Send us a short note answering one question: what's the most common mistake you see in manufacturer guide specs, and how would you fix it? Attach your résumé and, if you have one you can share, a sample spec section you wrote. That's it.

Anguleris Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We hire humble, hungry, people-smart builders from every background.