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Senior Technical Writer - MATLAB and Simulink Scopes
Job Summary
Do you have a strong aptitude for writing, interest in learning new technologies, and a flair for explaining complex concepts and procedures to technical audiences? You might be:
- Experienced in engineering and considering a career change
- A recent graduate in a technical field with a keen interest in technical communication
- An experienced writer with technical aptitude
Come join a team at MathWorks that writes online content to explain how to use our software scopes and simulation visualization tools for MATLAB and Simulink.
As an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, you will:
Act as the bridge between our developers’ designs and the end users, enabling them to discover what they need to know to harness our technologies for solving real-world engineering problems.
Distill the intricacies of our products into examples, procedures, and conceptual topics that help customers become productive quickly.
Help shape the design of our cutting-edge tools before they go out the door.
We are looking for self-starters with the background, skills, and enthusiasm for communicating creative ways to use MathWorks products.
Responsibilities
- Write user-focused online content that explains key workflows and solutions to our end users
- Develop examples and tutorials to show how to use our software
- Identify missing topics and fill gaps in existing information
- Participate with the development team in product planning, design review, and testing
- Help MathWorks develop next generation online resources
Qualifications Required / Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Science, etc.), plus 3 years of experience
- Strong writing skills
- Passion for and ability to dive in and learn new tools and technology
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
- Critical, logical thinking
- Outgoing, highly organized, persistent, flexible and able to focus on long term goals
- Engineering experience a plus
- MATLAB or Simulink experience a plus
- Hardware instrumentation (oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc) experience a plus
Why MathWorks?
It’s the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It’s contributing to software products that make a difference in the world. And it’s being part of a company with an incredible commitment to doing the right thing – for each individual, our customers, and the local community.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs 2500 people in 15 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.A. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.