Technical Writer, Chrome OS Partner Documentation (English, Chinese)
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with technical writing, instructional design, or related fields, with a focus on technical communication for hardware, systems, or software engineering.
- Experience reading source code written in Java, C++, Python, or JavaScript.
- Ability to communicate in English and traditional Chinese fluently to write and review technical content.
Preferred qualifications:
- 4 years of experience working with engineers, product and project management as part of the hardware or software development process.
- 4 years of experience writing or editing written or multimedia materials for an audience of hardware, systems, or test engineers.
- Experience with product development, enablement, and support processes.
- Experience with Markdown, HTML, and CSS.
- Ability to communicate in Mandarin or Japanese fluently to write and review technical content.
About the job
Technical writers communicate complex information clearly, concisely and accurately, and without relying on jargon. As a technical writer, your role involves tasks such as writing conceptual overviews and procedures, reading and writing example code, or updating help center queries and FAQs. Technical writers play a big part at Google. They are a key link between developers, marketing associates, developer advocates, as well as all the external users and developers, tying together many vital but disparate parts of the Google ecosystem.
You develop complex, in-depth communications for internal and external audiences and manage projects that involve coordinating multiple junior writers.
Chrome OS delivers quality computing at scale to provide universal and unfettered access to information, entertainment, and tools. Our mission is to empower anyone to create and access information freely through fast, secure, simple, and intelligent computing.
Responsibilities
- Key content types and associated standards will include requirements, specifications, test descriptions, processes, and conceptual information, including training guides and materials.
- Edit documents written by others, coach engineers and other subject matter experts to improve their writing skills.
- Prepare and publish technical materials using markdown and a git and cider based toolchains.
- Plan, research, and produce technical documentation and training for clearly defined small projects and contribute to portions of medium to large sized projects.
- Contribute to projects related to publishing platform information architecture, content management, and the refinement of content based on user feedback and research.
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