Content Author - Engineering job at Wiley - John Wiley & Sons in CA

Remote Co.; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Wiley is seeking a Content Author - Engineering to craft engaging, web-based content including sections, labs, and interactive learning questions for engineering topics. You will lead projects, maintain a backlog, and contribute roadmap ideas.

You will collaborate with project managers and the engineering team to ensure quality, and may speak at conferences or publish materials as part of a broader education and publishing effort.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or Engineering Education.
• Experience with LaTeX, MathML, and/or XML.
• Teaching and/or authoring experience.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Create modern web-based content with interactive learning questions and animations for engineering topics.
• Oversee external authoring projects and train external authors to use the platform.
• Maintain and improve existing content and collaborate on interactive tools.
• Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to assist demos and respond to feedback.

Skills

Teaching experience

Technical communication

Organization

Education

MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering or Engineering Education

Tools

MATLAB

Python

LaTeX

MathML

XML

Job description

Title: Content Author - Engineering

Location: Remote, CA, USA

time type

Full time

job requisition id

R2601311

Job Description:

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what's possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what's next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

The Content Author - Engineering is a self-motivated worker who can independently author various content types including sections, challenge activities, labs, and more. They take ownership of assigned projects or titles and may serve as the lead author on one or more titles. Additionally, they maintain a backlog of improvements for given engineering titles and contribute strategy and roadmap ideas to Leads or Senior Managers.

The Content Author - Engineering is responsible for ensuring the quality of their projects or titles in collaboration with the project manager. This person may also speak at conferences, publish research papers, articles, webinars, and blog posts, and collaborate with colleagues on the development team to define and develop interactive tools.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create modern web-based content with extensive interactive learning questions, animations, and more for a variety of Engineering topics (Material Science, Thermodynamics, Statics and Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, MATLAB, Circuits, and more).
• Work with project managers to oversee external authoring projects (evaluate project proposals, train external authors to utilize the zyBooks platform, review content to ensure quality, and adherence to zyBooks' authoring guidelines).
• Maintain and improve existing content.
• Collaborate with colleagues on the engineering team to define and develop interactive tools.
• Collaborate with colleagues in marketing and sales to assist with demos, respond to instructor feedback, assist with special requests, and more.

Required Qualifications:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or Engineering Education.
• Experience with LaTeX, MathML, and/or XML.
• Previous teaching experience and/or previous authoring experience.
• A passion for making a real difference in engineering education.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly motivated and organized.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous academic research experience and publications in engineering education.
• Experience coding in MATLAB and/or Python.

We power infinite possibilities.

For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing-creating impact that reaches everywhere.

We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.

Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

Salary Range:

89,100.00 USD to 127,700.00 USD #LI-MS1