Technical Writer - Qualcomm - Guyancourt, France

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Title: Technical Writer (Intermediate)

Contract: Permanent, full-time - French Contrat à Durée Indéterminée (CDI)

Location: On-site, Guyancourt (78), France

Compensation & Benefits: Qualcomm offers a competitive compensation and benefits package commensurate with skills and experience, including all benefits required under French law.

Recruiting Status: Open - applications are welcomed immediately.

Why Join QITC?

Join Qualcomm’s Interconnect Technology Center (QITC) and become a key technical communicator helping shape how cutting-edge Network-on-Chip (NoC) technologies are understood and adopted by thousands of SoC engineers worldwide.

This role offers:

• Deep exposure to advanced hardware and system architectures
• High autonomy and editorial ownership
• Long-term technical growth in a world-class R&D environment
• A mission-driven documentation role focused on engineering impact rather than marketing

Role Description

This position is ideal for a bilingual French-English technical writer with at least 2-5 years of experience in microelectronics or closely related high-technology fields, such as telecommunications, AI/ML, robotics, or advanced computing.

You will join a small, highly technical Technical Writing Team (TWT) within QITC and contribute to end-user documentation for state-of-the-art NoC technologies. Your work will directly support the deployment of innovations that will reach the public in the coming years.

In addition to authoring technical documentation, you will contribute to the broader documentation ecosystem by:

• Defining and enforcing terminology, naming conventions, and style guidelines
• Proposing and improving document templates and editorial standards
• Participating in the definition of content- and information-management workflows
• Helping define and supporting a global LLM-enabled strategy for QITC end-user documentation and internal engineering documents

Content is authored within a strongly typed editorial workflow, producing English-language text and visual material directly in a relational, object-oriented authoring database. Publications are delivered periodically to a large internal audience of Qualcomm hardware and software designers, architects, and verification engineers.

Technical Environment and Growth

QITC operates in a highly demanding, engineering-driven R&D context. As a result, you will progressively acquire deep technical expertise and develop the ability to engage with engineers on equal footing.

You will:

• Build sufficient technical mastery to author documentation autonomously
• Translate complex architectures and specifications into clear, precise documentation
• Communicate effectively with multiple audiences, from system architects to design and verification engineers

Over time, this position enables you to become a technical communication subject-matter expert across QITC technologies. In return, you will face continuous and stimulating intellectual challenges.

Information Gathering & Editorial Work

A core part of the role is technical information analysis and synthesis. You will extract and validate information from diverse sources, including:

• Specifications, design documents, and presentation material
• Source code and configuration files
• Recorded presentations and internal knowledge bases
• Customer-support and issue-tracking systems

Information is obtained through document analysis, meeting participation (often conducted in French), and, more rarely, one-on-one interviews with engineering Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

Sources may be formal or informal, incomplete, evolving, or distributed across heterogeneous systems. The ability to evaluate source reliability, structure information, and restitute it clearly, consistently, concisely, and comprehensively is essential. Just as essential is your ability to acquire knowlegde, so that you can describe technology that you have made yours.

Personal Qualities

To succeed in this role, you should demonstrate:

• Strong technical curiosity and analytical thinking
• Flexibility and responsiveness in a fast-moving R&D environment
• Persistence, rigor, and close attention to detail
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

This role is a strong fit if you:

• Enjoy understanding how complex systems work, and explaining them clearly
• Like turning messy or incomplete information into structured knowledge
• Are comfortable interacting daily with engineers
• Are seeking a long-term technical role rather than a marketing-oriented writing position

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or equivalent) in electronics, telecommunications, computer science, or a related field

and

• A second undergraduate or graduate-level degree or qualification in English-language technical communication

Equivalent professional experience and demonstrable skills may compensate for formal education requirements. We encourage out-of-the-box, outstanding applications!

Required Skills

• Strong technical mindset and pronounced curiosity about technology
• Ability to autonomously analyze and synthesize information from diverse sources (source code, presentations, tickets, specifications, emails)
• Foundational knowledge in mathematics, computing, and electronics, including:
  • Boolean algebra
  • Simple equations and mathematical reasoning
  • General scientific literacy
• Familiarity with DITA-based workflows
• Experience with single-source and database-driven authoring; familiarity with object-oriented authoring tools, such as Author-it, is a plus
• Experience defining terminology, naming conventions, and style guides
• Experience with documentation automation, scripting, or workflow optimization . Knowledge in VBS is a plus
• Understanding of LLM document consumption. You will be required to write for machines just as much as for humans, and devise terminology and content structuring for AI-assisted documentation. Experience in LLM-enabled flows or business is a strong plus
• Experience with source-control and content-management systems, such as SVN, GitHub, Bugzilla, JIRA, and Confluence
• Experience or understanding with doc-as-code workflows
• Proficiency with Windows and Linux environments
• Proficiency with office productivity tools and text-based editors/search tools
• Sensitivity to UX and UI consistency
• Basic competence in graphic communication

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with micro-electronics, systems-on-a-chip, networks-on-a-chip, and the associated ecoystem, is a strong plus
• Familiarity with the Python language and ability to navigate complex codebases
• Basic experience with CorelDRAW for technical diagram creation
• Experience with the enterprise collaboration tools Confluence and SharePoint
• Proficiency with advanced regular-expression tools
• Understanding of UX principles and UI text maintenance

Language Skills

All publications are produced in English.

This role requires:

• Excellent written English
• Very high proficiency in spoken French (native or bilingual)

This is essential, as technical meetings and interviews with SMEs are frequently conducted in French, often at a fast technical pace.

How to Apply

Submit a résumé and cover letter in both English and French.

Interviews will be conducted on site or remotely, depending on circumstances.

Important: Non-European Union candidates must already have, or be eligible for, French residency and work authorization. Qualcomm provides significant assistance throughout this process.

Minimum Qualifications:

OR

Associate's degree and 4+ years of writing and editing software and/or hardware documentation and content, or related work experience.

OR

High School diploma or equivalent and 6+ years of writing and editing software and/or hardware documentation and content, or related work experience.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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