Location: Austin, TX

Description: Plans, writes, and edits technical documentation, including administration guides, installation guides, on-line help, knowledge base items, white papers, and release notes. Works effectively with subject matter experts to identify scope and content. Installs and uses products in order to understand and document them. Produces deliverables in the form of PDFs, on-line help, and other documents. Might document engineering process and specifications. Participates in planning by providing accurate sizings of effort at a project level. Supervision generally not required; can mentor less experienced writers. Contributes lessons learned from projects to the publications and/or project team; encourages team members to contribute lessons learned and utilize internal expertise.

Requirements:

• Excellent writing skills. (Prefer highly technical individual with experience in developer level documentation. Able to tailor documentation to audience need and skill level. Can define style and scope of content.)
• Demonstrated skills in planning, designing, and creating several types of publications for multiple product components or developing complex help systems
• Minimum of eight years of experience in technical writing or equivalent demonstrated skills
• Expert with leading documentation tools and documentation delivery options
• Able to multi-task and set priorities well
• Able to plan and execute a project-wide documentation plan
• Experience with the following:
  • FrameMaker
  • RoboHelp
  • HTML
  • Perforce
  • Captivate
  • Mif2Go
  • Javascript and JSP
  • Agile Development Process
  • Illustrator
  • Eclipse
  • Build systems/processes

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