Senior Technical Writer
About The Position
Join Altera as a Technical Writer! The Technical Writer creates clear, accurate, and concise technical content by leveraging technical writing principles, resources, technologies and tools. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to: 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.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience in Technical Writing.
- Experienced with structured authoring tool, DITA, CCMS (IxiaSoft) tools.
- Knowledge of Adobe Acrobat suite.
- Great communication skills and able to work cross functionally with different stakeholders across international sites.
Nice To Haves
- FPGA or EDA Tool experience preferred (Quartus)
Responsibilities
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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