Sr. Software Technical Writer

Job Description

Come join us as a Sr. Software Technical Writer and together let's grow and develop the next leading technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creates clear, accurate, and concise technical content by leveraging technical writing principles, resources, technologies and tools.
• Analyzes and improves complex subject matter, leveraging direct product experience as well as product specifications.
• Researches, organizes, and writes easy to comprehend documentation that simplifies complex technical concepts into content consumable by all, ensuring appropriate syntax, style, and grammatical usage of data.
• Defines and manages projects from start to finish for self or a small team.
• Organizes and prioritizes work and schedule according to the business goals, product release cycle, and customer needs.
• Reconciles conflicting inputs, content priorities and deadlines with stakeholders.
• Tracks progress and issues in defect management system. Verifies that technical content is accurate, clear, complete, and user focused.
• Ensures it adheres to standards for graphics, layout, format, style, terminology, and overall quality. Maintains a thorough understanding of content publishing and lifecycle processes.
• Validates documentation content against the software product by testing procedures described, often by installing, setting up, and running the software.
• Designs, develops, and publishes technical content for product/UI text, API documentation, web pages, user/installation guides, support articles, training material, blogs, videos, release notes, new feature documents and graphics.
• Author, maintain, and improve high-quality documentation, including user guides, Application Programming Interface (API) references, tutorials, and technical articles for various product lifecycle stages, from adoption and onboarding to advanced use cases.
• Develop visual aids, diagrams, and examples to enhance comprehension of technical concepts.
• Assess and establish efficient systems to publish white papers. Teach others to do so.
• Assess and revamp publication systems to enable engineering to do their own documentation
• Proactively identify gaps in documentation and develop strategies to improve clarity, accuracy, and completeness.
• Work with team members to help them make effective documentation contributions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align documentation with product goals and user needs.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or technical field and 6+ years of experience as a technical writer OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or technical field and 4+ years of experience as a technical writer.

Minimum 2+ years of experience in the following:

• Engineering or software development background, with the ability to understand APIs, SDKs, and developer tools.
• Experience with markdown is a must, and RST markup languages, with frameworks for documentation generation such as Sphinx and Swagger, and working with Git.
• Demonstrated expertise in simplifying complex technical information into user-friendly content.
• Track record of working with engineers, product managers, and marketing teams.
• Content management and operations best practices.
• Must show demos of documentation you've written (work samples).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert in Markdown
• Technical writer, preferably in a product or developer-focused role.

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and or schoolwork/classes/research.

Inside this Business Group

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Other Locations

US, WA, Seattle; US, CA, Santa Clara

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US $123,540.00-$174,410.00 (Hourly Role)*Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience

Working Model

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.