Technical Writer 1
Onto InnovationJob Title
Technical Writer 1
Role Summary
The Technical Writer produces, edits, organizes, and maintains technical documentation across the product lifecycle for semiconductor metrology equipment. Documentation types include product requirements, functional specifications, system architecture, user manuals, service and maintenance procedures, training materials, release notes, and customer-facing content.
Experience Level
Entry-level - 0–2 years of technical writing experience in engineering, semiconductor equipment, instrumentation, optics, or similarly technical industries.
Responsibilities
Responsible for creating and maintaining accurate, user-focused documentation and for coordinating documentation workflows with engineering and product teams.
- Create and maintain product specifications, system architecture documents, theory of operation, user manuals, service and maintenance procedures, installation and acceptance procedures, training materials, and release notes.
- Work directly with Systems, Optical, Software, and Applications engineers and Product Managers to gather technical information.
- Attend design reviews and engineering meetings to capture changes and technical details.
- Maintain documentation standards, templates, style guidelines, and coordinate document reviews and approvals.
- Manage documentation repositories (SharePoint and other document management systems).
- Support product launches by delivering complete documentation packages on schedule.
- Drive continuous improvement of internal engineering and customer-facing documentation.
Requirements
Core skills and experience required for the role, plus preferred skills that strengthen a candidate's fit.
Must-have
- 0–2 years technical writing experience in engineering, semiconductor equipment, instrumentation, optics, or other highly technical industries.
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and communicate them clearly for engineers, service personnel, manufacturing teams, and customers.
- Strong document organization, editing, and project-management skills.
- Experience producing documentation from engineering source material.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Word, and document-management systems.
- Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
Nice-to-have
- Experience with semiconductor capital equipment, metrology, inspection, lithography, or process control.
- Familiarity with optical systems, spectroscopy, imaging systems, motion control, or automation equipment.
- Experience documenting software applications, APIs, and user interfaces.
- Knowledge of systems engineering principles and product development processes.
- Experience creating multimedia training materials or eLearning content; familiarity with Adobe Technical Communication Suite or similar tools.
- Experience with structured authoring approaches such as DITA or XML-based documentation systems.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, English, or a related field.
About the Company
Company: Onto Innovation
Headquarters: Wilmington, MA, United States
Onto Innovation develops process-control solutions for the semiconductor industry, offering optical inspection, 3D metrology, defect inspection, composition analysis, factory analytics, and lithography technologies to improve yield, performance, and reliability across the semiconductor value chain.
