Senior Technical Writer — Radar Hardware & Systems

Echodyne; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off & holidays

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Echodyne is seeking a Technical Writer to join our fast‑growing team in the United States. You will own and publish documentation for radar hardware products, including user guides, installation procedures, and system‑integration content, while partnering with hardware, software, and product teams throughout the lifecycle.

Ideal candidates have six+ years of technical writing, a strong portfolio, and hands‑on ability to validate docs against hardware and software.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of professional technical‑writing experience documenting complex hardware‑and‑software products or systems.
• A portfolio demonstrating task‑oriented documentation for technical products, including installation, operation, maintenance, integration or troubleshooting samples.
• Ability to learn through hands‑on product use and validate docs against hardware/software or test environments.
• Experience with DITA XML or similar topic‑based authoring, including content reuse, metadata, conditional publishing, multi‑format output.
• Hands‑on experience with docs‑as‑code workflows and Git (repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, peer review).
• Ability to interpret complex engineering source material for technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong project management, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize multiple deliverables.
• Bachelor’s degree in technical communication, engineering, CS, English, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Technical writing

Hardware documentation

DITA XML

Git/docs‑as‑code

Project management

Audience adaptation

Learning from product use

Structured authoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical field

Tools

Oxygen XML Editor

CCMS

DITA Open Toolkit

XSLT

CSS

Job description

Echodyne is seeking a Technical Writer to join our fast‑growing team in the United States. You will own and publish documentation for radar hardware products, including user guides, installation procedures, and system‑integration content, while partnering with hardware, software, and product teams throughout the lifecycle.

Ideal candidates have six+ years of technical writing, a strong portfolio, and hands‑on ability to validate docs against hardware and software.