Senior Technical Writer

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA leads the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people to help us accelerate the next wave of computing.

To help document our wide array of next-generation products, we're seeking experienced technical writers with passion and drive, technical proficiency, and excellent writing and editing skills. Further, we’re seeking candidates who can quickly form good working relationships with developers and work collaboratively 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.

What you'll be doing:

• 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 create clear and reusable content

• Driving the technical review process

• Possibly also preparing illustrations, photographs, diagrams, and charts, and assist in graphic layouts.

• Possibly writing sample code to demonstrate API usage

What we need to see:

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

• 8+ years of experience writing technical documentation

• Familiarity with C / C++ / Python

• Ability to run complex 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

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Authoring experience with Sphinx and reStructuredText

• Proficiency using Swagger or equivalent to document source code

• 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.

At NVIDIA, we are inventing some of the coolest technology to empower our partners to realize their artistic side, and further our technology leadership position. This allows us tackle problems that others can only dream of solving at this point.