Developer Experience Docs Engineer

AI Chopping Block; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking a content-minded engineer to curate its technical documentation and maintain a high quality bar across guides and references. You will partner with product and engineering teams to ensure accurate, usable content that scales with new products and features.

You will design documentation architecture, create style guides, and build automated pipelines to verify code examples and prose, while collaborating across the company to keep docs clear and consistent.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an engineering, product, or developer relations role.
• Experience authoring and/or editing high-quality technical content for developers.
• Knowledge of agentic engineering workflows and best practices.
• Comfort with modern software development practices (version control, CI/CD, testing).

Responsibilities

• Thinking holistically about content architecture and how the docs should evolve as Modal introduces new products and features.
• Innovating on novel documentation formats and delivery channels to optimize agent productivity, in collaboration with our Agent DX research team.
• Developing content standards, style guides, and automated enforcement mechanisms to ensure consistent style and high quality.
• Building and maintaining automated pipelines that will enforce the correctness of code examples and prose descriptions.
• Collaborating with engineers across the company to author documentation that is clear, consistent, and correct.]
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Skills

Technical writing

Developer relations

Content strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Testing

Job description

Modal is seeking a content-minded engineer to curate its technical documentation and maintain a high quality bar across guides and references. You will partner with product and engineering teams to ensure accurate, usable content that scales with new products and features.

You will design documentation architecture, create style guides, and build automated pipelines to verify code examples and prose, while collaborating across the company to keep docs clear and consistent.