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Onto Innovation strives to optimize customers’ critical path of progress by making them smarter, faster and more efficient.\nJob Summary & Responsibilities\nPrepare and maintain technical documents targeted towards external customers.\nSuch documents include, but are not limited to: documentation for custom applications and hardware, maintenance guides, site preparation guides, crating/uncrating guides, upgrade instructions.\n\nDocumentation will apply to hardware, software, or both.\n\nPreparation of documents includes (1) interviewing subject matter experts, (2) generating/creating written content, editing and proofreading text, (3) creating and/or modifying graphics (digital photographs, screen capture images, line drawings and diagrams, flow charts, etc.).\n\nDocumentation is developed for distribution in electronic form from established templates.\n\nMaintain necessary department standards (Style Guides, Word Templates, FrameMaker Templates, etc.)\n\nApplicants must be able to travel internationally to customer sites at least 20% of the time, with additional travel as business needs require.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree or equivalent experience.\nMinimum 5+ years professional technical writing experience related to engineering disciplines (software development, electrical or mechanical engineering, etc.).\nMust have strong writing, editing, organizational and communication skills, and meticulous attention to detail.\nStrong experience using industry-standard tools such as FrameMaker and Acrobat as well as MS Office.\nAbility and willingness to work with engineers and other co workers in a cooperative team environment.\nAbility to work with minimal supervision.\nAbility to work on multiple concurrent projects.\nWhy Join Onto Innovation?\nAt Onto Innovation, we believe your work should matter-and so should your well-being. 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