Senior Technical Writer Job at NVIDIA in Santa Clara

NVIDIA DGX Cloud is a cloud-based platform that offers enterprises access to powerful DGX systems, specifically crafted for AI and deep learning workloads. To help document DGX Cloud, we're seeking an experienced technical writer with passion and drive, technical proficiency, and excellent writing and editing skills.

We’re seeking a candidate who can quickly form good working relationships with developers and work cross-functionally to produce great documentation that simplifies, explains, and empowers our users! This includes a mix of writing from scratch and revising draft documents supplied by developers.

Responsibilities : Writing documentation about new software features and updating existing documents such as programming guides and application programming interface (API) references

Researching, scoping and managing documentation projects

Gathering, editing, and publishing subject-specific knowledge from subject matter experts and developers

Supporting development teams and delivering high-quality technical content within a fast-paced software release schedule

Contributing to internal templates and standards to build clear and reusable content

Driving the technical review process

Possibly also preparing illustrations, diagrams, and charts

Requirements : Experience working as a technical writer on different types of documentation, particularly API references, developer guides, and user manuals

5+ years of experience writing technical documentation

Ability to run sophisticated software using Linux and Docker

A propensity for thinking like a developer and writing the documentation they need

A talent for identifying updates and changes that will impact users and documentation

The flexibility to find whatever method works best to get close to subject matter experts and learn what they know

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications : Authoring experience with Sphinx and reStructuredText

Deep understanding of source control tools (such as Perforce and GitLab) and experience using issue trackers such as JIRA to track project tasks

Experience documenting complex data center-based services and platforms

Understanding of Deep Learning, neural networks, software frameworks for machine intelligence, and system virtualization

Software engineering experience

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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