Technical Writer

Stellar Science Ltd Co; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

SEP IRA

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Holidays

PTO

Job summary

Stellar Science Ltd Co in Albuquerque, NM or Tysons Corner, VA seeks a talented technical writer to craft and edit technical reports, proposals, and software user documentation for scientists and developers. You will quickly learn products and document user workflows in an agile setting.

The role requires strong writing/editing skills, experience with technical and scientific material, and comfort with version control. Collaboration across distributed teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least five years of technical writing experience.
• Experience with user-focused writing and documentation.
• Ability to edit highly technical and scientific documentation.
• Experience with version control systems.
• Excellent communication within a distributed organization.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Experience in agile software development environments.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit scientific technical reports.
• Deliver high-quality technical documentation for software.
• Create and maintain help files for software products.
• Work in an agile software development environment.

Skills

Technical writing

Editing

User-focused writing

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Git

Markdown

Sphinx

Command-line shells

Job description

Stellar Science is a growing scientific software development company that develops custom software products and performs research and development in multiple high-tech domains. We are seeking a talented technical writer to write and edit technical reports, technical proposals, and software user documentation in support of scientists and software developers at our headquarters in Albuquerque, NM or in our office in Tysons Corner, VA. Join our unique, collaborative team to help create leading-edge scientific software documentation in fascinating domains including space situational awareness, computer vision, directed energy, metamaterials, and biothermal modeling.

This position requires excellent writing and editing skills and the ability to quickly learn new concepts while working in an agile software development environment with multiple software products. A willingness to dig into software to learn the products and document user workflows is also required.

This individual will:

• Write and edit scientific technical reports
• Deliver high-quality technical documentation
• Create and maintain help files for software products
• Work in an agile software development environment

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum five years of technical writing experience
• Experience with user-focused writing and documentation
• Ability to edit highly technical and scientific documentation
• Experience with version control systems
• Excellent communication skills to include working within a distributed organization
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Previous experience working in an agile software development environment
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic

Desired qualifications

• Experience with Markdown, Sphinx, and documentation as code
• Experience with Git and command-line shells
• Ability to create video training
• Experience implementing SharePoint workspaces

Stellar Science is a forward-thinking business that provides its employees with many benefits

• A generous fully employer-funded SEP IRA
• Fully employer-funded health insurance
• Dental, disability, and life insurance
• Eleven paid federal holidays (which may be floated as desired)
• Accrue three weeks of paid time off (PTO) annually

Due to our work with the Department of Defense, applicants must be U.S. citizens and must be willing to undergo a background investigation.