{"id":1213137,"url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-technical-writer","title":"Technical Writer","company":{"id":6413,"name":"Echodyne Corp","domain":"echodyne.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/echodyne-corp","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Kirkland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":124733,"max":187048,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":187048},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T05:07:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T21:02:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Radar Reinvented.\nEchodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).\nEchodyne is seeking a Technical Writer to join our fast-growing team. \nRESPONSIBILITIES\nOwn the planning, development, validation, publication, localization, and lifecycle maintenance of documentation for assigned radar hardware products.\nCreate user guides, quick-start guides, installation and configuration procedures, system-integration guides, operation and troubleshooting content, and other customer-facing technical materials with a focus on hardware components and assemblies.\nPartner with systems, hardware, software, test/QA, product, support, program management, manufacturing or operations, and training stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.\nAuthor and maintain modular content using DITA XML or other approved structured-authoring formats, applying topic-based writing, metadata, conditional content, and reuse strategies.\nContribute through Git-based docs-as-code workflows, including branches, commits, pull requests, peer review, issue tracking, change traceability, and automated build or publishing processes.\nManage multiple documentation initiatives independently, communicate risks early, and adapt plans as product priorities change.\nREQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE\nSix or more years of professional technical-writing experience, including substantial experience documenting complex hardware-and-software products or systems.\nA portfolio or work samples demonstrating clear, task-oriented documentation for technical products; installation, operation, maintenance, integration, or troubleshooting samples are especially relevant.\nDemonstrated ability to learn through hands-on product use and to validate documentation against hardware, software, or realistic test environments.\nExperience with DITA XML or another topic-based structured-authoring methodology, including content reuse, metadata, conditional publishing, and multi-format output.\nHands-on experience with docs-as-code workflows and Git, including repositories, branches, commits, pull requests or merge requests, peer review, and issue tracking.\nAbility to interpret complex engineering source material and translate it into content that technical and less-technical audiences can understand and act on.\nStrong project-management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to independently prioritize multiple documentation deliverables in a changing environment.\nBachelor's degree in technical communication, engineering, computer science, English, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nDESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) \nExperience documenting radar, aerospace, defense, government, industrial, embedded, electronic, or other mission-critical systems.\nProficiency with Oxygen XML Editor and experience with a component content management system (CCMS), DITA Open Toolkit, XSLT, CSS, or related publishing technologies.\nFamiliarity with Agile product development, engineering change control, release management, and documentation traceability.\nExperience creating technical diagrams, annotated product images, or other visual explanations from engineering source material.\nEchodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. \nWHAT WE OFFER\nThis is an exempt role.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is\n$124,733—$187,048 USD\nIf your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!\nWe offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:\nRSU (Restricted Stock Units)\nGenerous Benefits:\nFully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you \nChoice of PPO or HDHP/HSA\nVirtual Care - 98Point6\nEmployee Assistance Program\nMental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)\nTravel Assistance Insurance\nCompany Paid Life Insurance\nCompany Paid Short & Long Term Disability\nFlexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)\n401(k) match\nPet Insurance\nPrepaid Legal Program\nCommuter Benefits\nPaid Company Holidays\nAll qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5354,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Upper-Intermediate (B2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["RF & Wireless Hardware","C4ISR"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T05:27:28Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":67,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":187048,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-technical-writer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-technical-writer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T00:01:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4992,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}