Our award-winning and highly successful global technology client is looking for a technical author to join their technical publications team. You’ll have a proactive approach and a real appetite and enthusiasm for learning cutting-edge technology and developing new skills.
We’ve got an interesting opportunity available with our client in Berkshire. Working with a friendly and knowledgeable team of R&D and QA personnel, you will write, update and maintain a suite of documentation for current, future, and legacy products.
Working as part of a coordinated team, you will:
- Research, plan and write a range of user-centric technical content for customers' developers and engineers.
- Improve the clarity and consistency of the technical documentation ensuring it complies with corporate and technical communications standards, and that departmental processes are followed.
- Be a technical content advocate.
As the successful candidate you will have:
- Solid experience as a technical author in a technology or engineering environment.
- A technical software and/or hardware background, writing for different, highly technical target audiences.
- Software background: Experience producing technical software documentation for developers, engineers or architects and/or programming experience. (Familiarity with programming languages/concepts will help to understand incoming/outgoing signals, state diagrams, memory and caching etc.)
- Hardware background: Familiarity with the fundamentals of computer architecture, microprocessors, basic electronics, System-on-Chip (SoC), embedded electronics.
- The ability to apply logical thinking and grasp technical concepts.
- The ability to write abstract concepts and building technical understanding without the ability to do ‘hands-on’ testing.
- Good knowledge of industry standard tools, technologies, and content management systems.
- A detail-oriented approach.
- An understanding of the interaction between software and hardware is useful.
Any experience with Markdown, HTML, XML / DITA, Jenkins, Git, JSON, Python or a similar scripting language would be a huge advantage, as would any experience of user journeys/personas.
A stimulating working environment is on offer, as is a competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is a hybrid-working role where you will need to be onsite at least one day a week in one of the following office locations: Cambridge, Manchester, Sheffield or Galway.
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