Technical Writer (fmd)
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Job Summary
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At SPREAD we enable engineering teams at leading companies such as Mercedes-Benz Volkswagen BMW Bosch and Rheinmetall to navigate the complexities of software-defined vehicles and products. Our platform transforms intricate engineering and software data into actionable Engineering Intelligence providing teams with preconfigured applications and AI agents to access and apply critical product knowledge more effectively. This approach accelerates time-to-market by up to 10 r educes costs by 50% and enhances product quality.
Recognized for our innovation with accolades like the 2024 SPARK AI Innovation Prize (by Handelsblatt & McKinsey) inclusion in the EU AI Champions Initiative and ranking among LinkedIns Top 20 Startups in DACH SPREAD offers a dynamic environment where your contributions directly impact the evolution of engineering intelligence.
Your Mission
- Ship docs with code using Git to ensure that docs and features land together.
- Run the doc site and its information architecture as one system and customize the site where necessary.
- Maintain the GraphQL reference documentation to ensure users can access the knowledge graph.
- Document technical theory tutorials and references and create courses for a technical audience.
- Create samples and exercises to show how to use the SPREAD product.
- Write for a tech audience with inclusive language and manage localizations.
- Triage and iterate with intention manage the backlog watch search queries and 404s and publish refactors redirects and deprecations with clear notes.
- Improve the docs pipeline thoughtfully over time choose automation that removes toil and keep the focus on author experience and reader impact.
Your Experience
- 4-8 years of shipping developer documentation with a portfolio that proves guides tutorials and API or SDK reference that developers actually use.
- Experience writing for a B2B SaaS product and highly technical audiences with an instinct for enterprise needs and constraints.
- Editorial strength with sharp line editing consistent terminology and voice localization-ready writing and flawless English (German as a great advantage).
- Docs-as-code in production with Git workflows PR reviews plain text authoring and a Static Site Generator such as MkDocs Material Docusaurus Hugo or similar.
- Comfortable with building and maintaining websites using Markdown HTML CSS JavaScript YAML JSON and Python.
- Ability to read code and write small Python/JavaScript utilities to unblock docs validate snippets or glue tools together.
- Discovery and ownership through interactions with engineers reproducing steps verifying paths end-to-end and running a docs epic with clear communication.
Nice to have:
- Experience operating or extending the docs pipeline with preview builds link and style checks and sensible quality gates.
- Structured authoring and taxonomy work that scales reuse and findability.
- Ability to run CI/CD with preview builds link and spell or style linting failing on red and fixinb quickly to green.
- Practical media skills such as tidy diagrams clean screenshots short task-centric screencasts or podcast edits.
- Responsible use of AI for drafting and reviewing content enabling search and improving the documentation.
Why SPREAD
- Category Creators: Our Agentic Engineering Intelligence platform connects fragmented hardware and software data into dynamic Product Twins. AI agents operate on this foundation to automate compliance checks dependency analysis and spec generation enabling 10 faster time-to-market and 50% lower lifecycle costs for OEMs like Volkswagen Mercedes-Benz and Rheinmetall.
- Industry-Relevant Impact: Traditional PLM systems hit their limits with software-defined products. At SPREAD youll guide leading manufacturers into the AI-driven era of engineering unlocking millions in savings.
- High Growth & Ownership: Weve grown double digits every year since 2019 and theres a greenfield ahead in untapped industries and regions ready for you to shape.
- Competitive Package: Attractive compensation performance bonus mobility budget (e.g. Deutschlandticket) Urban Sports Club membership 30 vacation days workation options a volunteering day and a 1000 learning budget.
- Security & Flexibility: ISO 27001 and TISAX certified fully GDPR-compliant with flexible deployments (cloud or on-prem) and a hybrid work model designed to fit your life.
Contact
Dmytro İefymenko
Köpenicker Str. 40c 10179 Berlin
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Key Skills
- Proofreading
- Adobe Acrobat
- Content Management Systems
- Technical Writing
- Visio
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Sharepoint
- XML
- Confluence
- Wiki Systems
- Word Processing
- Writing Skills
About Company
Our Engineering Intelligence Graph, analytics hub & low-code collaboration environment form an intelligent layer on top of your existing engineering software stack. Our EI Graph database represents how mechatronic systems work. Together with our analytics hub, it connects all pro ... View more
