What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Technical Writer - Engineering Development Group position at MathWorks?
Summary
MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.
Engineering Technical Writers at MathWorks develop content that helps users solve engineering challenges. We are members of product teams that include engineering, quality, marketing, and user experience staff. We share a common goal: to develop leading scientific and engineering software to develop algorithms, model systems, and deploy software.
A successful candidate begins their career in the Engineering Development Group (EDG). As a member of the EDG team, you receive training on MathWorks processes, tools, and customer use cases in core product areas. You also receive technical writing training and coaching before transitioning to the engineering technical writer role.
If you have strong writing skills, love technology, and have a flair for explaining concepts and procedures, apply to join our team.
Responsibilities
EDG team members receive extensive training, mentoring, and coaching that enables them to transition into a team as a software technical writer aligned with their skillset, interests, and organizational needs. Your specific responsibilities include:
MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.
Engineering Technical Writers at MathWorks develop content that helps users solve engineering challenges. We are members of product teams that include engineering, quality, marketing, and user experience staff. We share a common goal: to develop leading scientific and engineering software to develop algorithms, model systems, and deploy software.
A successful candidate begins their career in the Engineering Development Group (EDG). As a member of the EDG team, you receive training on MathWorks processes, tools, and customer use cases in core product areas. You also receive technical writing training and coaching before transitioning to the engineering technical writer role.
If you have strong writing skills, love technology, and have a flair for explaining concepts and procedures, apply to join our team.
- MathWorks has created a hybrid work plan that balances our collaborative philosophy with the flexibility to work from home some of the time. Your recruiter can provide more details.
Responsibilities
EDG team members receive extensive training, mentoring, and coaching that enables them to transition into a team as a software technical writer aligned with their skillset, interests, and organizational needs. Your specific responsibilities include:
- Strengthen your technical and professional skills as you work on high impact technical projects with documentation teams to grow your professional interests and help advance your career.
- Collaborate with your peers to provide technical support to MathWorks customers for highly complex technical issues in MATLAB and Simulink.
- Leverage Agentic AI to support and enhance technical writing activities such as writing code, developing examples, and resolving technical issues, while applying sound engineering judgment and best practices:
- Build product and technical knowledge by supporting our users and responding to inquiries.
- Research and represent product use cases.
- Translate research into content specifications.
- Demonstrate features, workflows, and applications with goal-oriented topics and examples.
- Review and respond to product developments.
- Build a strong foundation of leadership skills as you contribute to project work and process improvement initiatives
- A bachelor's degree is required.
- Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without restriction.
- Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.
- Qualified candidates for this role must have a degree in Engineering or other STEM field
- Experience with programming languages or computational tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or C
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Curiosity, learning agility, and a willingness to explore new engineering tools, domains and technologies, including AI-assisted workflows
- Proficiency with MathWorks products is a plus
- Strong system design and systems thinking skills
Salary : $100,000 - $130,000