Floor-Based Technical Writer for Manufacturing Ops

ATOMS Careers page; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Equity

Sick Time and Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit

Team lunch

Job summary

Atoms in San Francisco is seeking a Technical Writer to build and maintain the documentation backbone for our manufacturing and engineering operations as we scale toward mass production.

You will work on the shop floor with production and quality teams to turn tribal knowledge into clear work instructions, test procedures, and release notes, helping reduce downtime and improve build consistency.

Qualifications

• Experience writing technical or process documentation in a manufacturing, hardware, automotive, aerospace, or similarly hands-on production environment.
• Comfort working directly on the production floor — observing builds, interviewing technicians, and translating hands‑on process knowledge into clear written and visual instructions.
• Strong organizational instincts; you naturally think in terms of structure, version control, and findability.

Responsibilities

• Standardize work instructions across every manufacturing workstation, ensuring a consistent format, level of detail, and visual style
• Maintain a living build-step instruction set that stays current as workstations multiply, processes evolve, and engineering changes are introduced
• Build, update, and revise procedures for test steps, test programs, rework processes, and build procedures as they change
• Organize and maintain our knowledge base, building out new pages and improving structure so information is easy to find and keep current
• Review BOM changes and publish release notes coming from engineering, ensuring production teams see and understand what changed and why
• Build troubleshooting and diagnostic documentation from field diagnostic data, working to reduce downtime by making root-cause and resolution paths easier to follow
• Support engineering documentation standards, helping formalize how design and process documentation is created and maintained as the team grows

Skills

Technical writing

Documentation on floor

Cross-functional work

Notion

Linear

Tools

Notion

Linear

Job description

Atoms in San Francisco is seeking a Technical Writer to build and maintain the documentation backbone for our manufacturing and engineering operations as we scale toward mass production.

You will work on the shop floor with production and quality teams to turn tribal knowledge into clear work instructions, test procedures, and release notes, helping reduce downtime and improve build consistency.