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Technical Writer

About Applied

Autonomy is one of the leading technological advances of this century that will come to impact our lives. The work you'll do at Applied will meaningfully accelerate the efforts of the top autonomy teams in the world. At Applied, you will have a unique perspective on the development of cutting-edge technology while working with major players across the industry and the globe.

Applied Intuition provides software solutions to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. The company's suite of simulation, validation, and drive log management software enables development teams to create thousands of scenarios in minutes, run simulations at scale, and verify and validate algorithms for production deployment. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Los Angeles, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Munich, Stockholm, Seoul, and Tokyo, Applied consists of software, robotics, and automotive experts with experiences from top global companies. Leading autonomy programs and 17 of the top 20 global OEMs use Applied's solutions to bring autonomy to market faster.

About the Role

We are looking for a talented technical writer to create compelling product documentation for our industry-leading suite of tools. You'll work closely with world-class engineers, designers, and product specialists to understand our products and generate well-organized, highly-technical tutorials, and user manuals.

Please include a technical writing sample when applying for this role.

At Mechanical Simulation, you will:

Create and maintain tutorials and user manuals for technical audiences
Work with engineers to deeply understand new and existing features
Meet with customers to determine documentation requirements and areas of improvement
Contribute to the creation of technical blog posts and newsletters

We're looking for someone who has:

1+ years of experience authoring technical documentation
A Bachelor's degree or relevant experience creating technical documentation from scratch
Experience developing training materials and documentation for software tools
A proven record owning the documentation process from profiling audiences, to gathering information, to final publication and maintenance

Nice to have:

Familiarity with autonomous vehicles, vehicle dynamics, software development, or other technical fields
Understanding of web-based documentation workflows and management cycles
Ability to code at a basic level to convey simple examples and features
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Acrobat PDF, Markdown and/or LaTeX

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Applicants will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 upon commencing employment. Reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable federal and state law. Applicants should be aware that for external-facing roles that involve close contact with Company employees or other third parties on the Company's premises, accommodations that involve remaining unvaccinated against COVID-19 may not be deemed reasonable. The Company will engage in the interactive process on an individualized basis taking into account the particular position.

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