Technical Writer (Intermediate)
QualcommJob Title
Technical Writer (Intermediate)
Role Summary
Join Qualcomm's Interconnect Technology Center (QITC) Technical Writing Team to author and maintain English-language end-user documentation for Network-on-Chip (NoC) technologies. The role combines hands-on technical writing with ownership of terminology, templates, editorial standards, and content workflows, including work on LLM-enabled documentation strategies.
Experience Level
Mid-level; typically 2–5 years of technical writing or equivalent experience in microelectronics or related high-technology fields.
Responsibilities
Produce, maintain, and improve technical documentation and the documentation ecosystem for advanced hardware and system architectures.
- Author clear, accurate technical content (specifications, user guides, reference material) for hardware and software audiences.
- Define and enforce terminology, naming conventions, style guidelines, and editorial templates.
- Contribute to content- and information-management workflows and single-source, database-driven publishing processes.
- Analyze and synthesize technical information from specifications, design documents, code, presentations, and issue-tracking systems.
- Work with engineering SMEs to validate technical content and gather requirements, often in French.
- Support documentation automation, scripting, and tooling; help define LLM-enabled documentation consumption and structuring.
- Produce materials for internal engineer audiences and manage regular publication cycles within an object-oriented authoring environment.
Requirements
Key technical and professional skills required to perform the role. Equivalent professional experience may be accepted in lieu of specific items below.
- Proven technical writing experience (2+ years typical) producing software and/or hardware documentation or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Excellent written English; very high spoken French proficiency (native or bilingual) required for technical meetings and interviews.
- Strong technical curiosity, analytical thinking, persistence, rigor, and attention to detail.
- Experience with DITA-based workflows and single-source, database-driven authoring; familiarity with Author-it is a plus.
- Experience with documentation automation, scripting, and workflow optimization; scripting knowledge is a plus.
- Familiarity with source-control and content-management tools such as SVN, GitHub, Bugzilla, JIRA, and Confluence; experience with doc-as-code workflows.
- Proficiency with Windows and Linux environments and common productivity and text-based editing/search tools.
- Ability to structure content for both human and machine (LLM) consumption; experience with LLM-enabled documentation workflows is a strong plus.
- Basic competence in graphic communication and sensitivity to UX/UI consistency.
- Nice-to-have: Python familiarity, CorelDRAW experience for diagrams, SharePoint experience, advanced regular-expression skills, and domain familiarity with micro-electronics/SoC/NoC technologies.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in electronics, telecommunications, computer science, engineering, communications, English, or a related field is listed as a standard requirement. A second undergraduate or graduate-level qualification in English-language technical communication is preferred. Alternatives noted in the posting: Associate's degree plus 4+ years' relevant experience, or High School diploma plus 6+ years' relevant experience. Equivalent professional experience is explicitly accepted as a substitute for formal degrees. Non–EU candidates must already have, or be eligible for, French residency and work authorization.
About the Company
Company: Qualcomm
Headquarters: San Diego, California, United States
Qualcomm is a global leader in semiconductor and telecommunications equipment, specializing in mobile technologies and innovations. Known for its Adreno GPUs, the company provides solutions enabling advancements in mobile gaming, AI, VR/AR, and autonomous driving. Qualcomm's cutting-edge technology and commitment to high-performance, power-efficient designs drive the evolution of mobile graphics and connectivity worldwide.
