Senior Technical Writer – Radar Hardware & Systems

Content Creators; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PPO or HDHP/HSA

Virtual Care

Employee Assistance Program

Mental health benefits

Travel Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k) match

Pet Insurance

Prepaid Legal Program

Commuter Benefits

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Echodyne is seeking a Technical Writer to join our fast-growing team, delivering documentation for radar hardware products across the lifecycle. You will create guides, install/configuration procedures, and system-integration content with a focus on hardware components.

You will partner with hardware, software, test/QA, and operations teams, and contribute to structured-authoring with DITA, metadata, and reuse strategies. Docs-as-code via Git is expected.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of professional technical-writing experience documenting hardware-and-software products or systems.
• A portfolio or work samples demonstrating clear, task-oriented documentation for technical products; installation, operation, maintenance, integration, or troubleshooting samples are especially relevant.
• Demonstrated ability to learn through hands-on product use and to validate documentation against hardware, software, or realistic test environments.
• Experience with DITA XML or another topic-based structured-authoring methodology, including content reuse, metadata, conditional publishing, and multi-format output.
• Hands-on experience with docs-as-code workflows and Git, including repositories, branches, commits, pull requests or merge requests, peer review, and issue tracking.
• Ability to interpret complex engineering source material and translate it into content that technical and less-technical audiences can understand and act on.
• Strong project-management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to independently prioritize multiple documentation deliverables in a changing environment.
• Bachelor's degree in technical communication, engineering, computer science, 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, and other customer-facing technical materials with a focus on hardware components and assemblies.
• 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, applying topic-based writing, metadata, conditional content, and reuse strategies.
• Contribute through Git-based docs-as-code workflows, including branches, commits, pull requests, peer review, issue tracking, change traceability, and automated build or publishing processes.
• Manage multiple documentation initiatives independently, communicate risks early, and adapt plans as product priorities change.

Skills

Technical Writing

Documentation portfolio

DITA XML

Git workflows

Structured authoring

Content reuse

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical communication, engineering, CS, English, or related 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, delivering documentation for radar hardware products across the lifecycle. You will create guides, install/configuration procedures, and system-integration content with a focus on hardware components.

You will partner with hardware, software, test/QA, and operations teams, and contribute to structured-authoring with DITA, metadata, and reuse strategies. Docs-as-code via Git is expected.