Senior Technical Writer – Hardware & Radar Systems

Telemetry Today LLC; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU

Fully-paid medical insurance

PPO or HDHP/HSA

Virtual Care – 98Point6

Employee Assistance Program

Mental Health coverage

Travel Assistance Insurance

Company Paid Life Insurance

Company Paid Short & Long Term DI

Flexible PTO / 15 days per year

401(k) match

Pet Insurance

Prepaid Legal Program

Paid Company Holidays

Job summary

Echodyne seeks a Technical Writer to join our fast-growing team to own documentation for radar hardware products. You will create user guides, installation procedures, and troubleshooting content with a focus on hardware components.

You will partner with hardware, software, and manufacturing teams, use DITA XML, and contribute through docs-as-code workflows in a fast-paced environment where clarity and accuracy matter for complex systems.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of professional technical-writing experience for hardware/software products.
• Portfolio demonstrating task-oriented documentation for technical products (install, operate, maintain, integrate, troubleshoot).
• Ability to learn hands-on product use and validate docs against hardware/software environments.
• Experience with DITA XML or similar topic-based authoring; content reuse and metadata.
• Hands-on docs-as-code workflows and Git including PRs, reviews and issue tracking.
• Ability to translate engineering source material into content for technical and non-technical readers.
• Strong project-management skills and attention to detail with changing priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in technical communication, engineering, CS, English, or related field or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own planning, development, validation, publication, localization and lifecycle maintenance of documentation for assigned radar hardware products.
• Create user guides, quick-start guides, installation and configuration, system-integration, operation and troubleshooting content.
• Collaborate with systems, hardware, software, test/QA, product, support, program management, Manufacturing or Operations, and training stakeholders.
• Author and maintain modular content using DITA XML or other structured-authoring formats with reuse strategies.
• Contribute through Git-based docs-as-code workflows: branches, commits, PRs, peer review, issue tracking, and automated publishing.
• Manage multiple documentation initiatives independently, communicate risks early, adapt plans as priorities change.

Skills

Technical writing

DITA XML

Git workflows

Structured authoring

Hardware/software docs

Project management

Engineering docs

Education

Bachelor's in technical communication or engineering

Tools

Oxygen XML Editor

CCMS

DITA Open Toolkit

XSLT

CSS

Job description

Echodyne seeks a Technical Writer to join our fast-growing team to own documentation for radar hardware products. You will create user guides, installation procedures, and troubleshooting content with a focus on hardware components.

You will partner with hardware, software, and manufacturing teams, use DITA XML, and contribute through docs-as-code workflows in a fast-paced environment where clarity and accuracy matter for complex systems.