Position: Sr. Technical Writer /Technical Publications
Location: Concord, CA
Duration: 12- 18 months Contract OR Full time- Direct Hire.
Experience: 8-12 years
Job Description
- Manage a team and be a team member of a group that prepare, review, revise, and maintain product manuals and other customer-facing technical product documentation (Manual, Check List, Print Media, Quick Start guides).
- Create new customer-facing documentation from scratch using input from product development, Systems Engineering, Applications Engineering, Product Management, and Revise/maintain existing customer-facing documentation.
- Develop and maintain style templates for others to create detailed customer-facing information such as Manuals, Technical Application Notes.
- Interface with Systems Engineering Sales. Field service, Product Engineering, Applications Engineering, and Sales to gather the information necessary to accurately describe how to use products.
- Work closely in partnership with the Systems, Sales, Service, and other departments. You will be the team leader responsible for manual editing production, to standardize consistency and comply with corporate standards in terminology, style, and format; and to typeset the final manuals.
- Work with Hardware, Software, Embedded Software team, and the Software Tools team as necessary to develop automated systems for the generation and delivery of customer facing firmware and software documentation.
Education & Experience
- B.S. degree (Engineering, Computer Science, or other engineering discipline preferred), 8 or more years of related experience
- Excellent writing and proofreading skills.
- Experience in understanding usage and application of electronic systems and engineering concepts
- Proficient in the use of manual and automated publishing tools such as ACAD, PowerPoint, Word, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, DocuSign.
- Familiarity with AGILE, LN6, Solid works a plus
