Engineering Technical Writer - MATLAB Hardware
Job Summary
Join the Documentation team at MathWorks and write content to explain how to use MATLAB to process data for supervisory control or how to interface with data acquisition hardware. At MathWorks, technical writers learn about information requirements from users and, as integral members of multidisciplinary product teams, you will help shape the design of cutting-edge software.
Responsibilities
- Write user-focused content that explains how to use tools to design, model, and simulate engineering systems
- Develop real-world examples that show how our products are applied in science and engineering solutions
- Work with customers and customer facing groups to identify use cases, workflows, user tasks, and information needs
- Identify missing topics and fill gaps in existing information
- Participate in the software development process, review software requirements and functional designs, provide comments and suggest improvements
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 3 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
Additional Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience writing for a technical audience
- Experience using MATLAB or other programming languages
- Ability to learn and explain practical engineering and programming concepts and procedures
- Ability to develop and document creative examples to help users meet real-world design goals
- Ability to work collaboratively within cross-function product teams and a multi-writer team

Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,000 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
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