Technical Writer / Documentation Engineer

Project

Work done for a product or program.

• Author and maintain product datasheets covering electrical characteristics, absolute maximum ratings, timing diagrams, pinouts, and package drawings.
• Write technical reference manuals and register maps for SoCs and microcontrollers, generating register documentation from IP-XACT or SystemRDL sources where possible.
• Produce application notes, hardware design guides, and layout recommendations for power integrity, decoupling, and high-speed interface routing.
• Document software and firmware interfaces including driver APIs, boot flows, SDK usage, and AUTOSAR MCAL integration for automotive parts.
• Coordinate documentation reviews with design, validation, applications, and marketing to ensure specification numbers match characterisation data.
• Manage documentation revision control, errata publication, and customer-visible change notification tied to product change notices.
• Support localisation and customer-portal publishing so documentation reaches distributors and design partners in the required formats.

Function

Work that keeps the discipline running: methods, tools, suppliers and people.

• Maintain the docs-as-code toolchain — DITA, Sphinx, Markdown, Git — with automated builds, link checking, and multi-format publishing.
• Enforce terminology, style guide, and trademark and legal disclaimer standards across a large document portfolio.
• Write internal engineering specifications, design guidelines, and flow documentation that reduce tribal knowledge dependency.

Project

1. Produce and hand over the role's key deliverables
   • Product datasheets and technical reference manuals
   • Register map documentation generated from machine-readable sources
   • Application notes and hardware design guides
   • Errata documents and product change notices
   • Documentation style guide and terminology database
   • Docs-as-code build pipeline and publishing workflow
2. Support programsGeneral
   • Agree what each program needs
   • Deliver in time for milestones
3. Manage issuesGeneral
   • Track requests to closure
   • Escalate risks

Function

1. Run the functionGeneral
   • Maintain policies and processes
   • Keep records and controls
2. ImproveGeneral
   • Report performance
   • Lead improvement work