Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear develops world-leading medical devices that help people hear. As a top 100 medical device company and market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear-branded cochlear implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.
Job Overview
We are seeking a Technical Writer to create, update, and maintain regulated product content, ensuring it meets approved requirements, templates, content models, quality standards, and regulatory expectations.
This role translates technical, product, regulatory, and stakeholder inputs into clear, accurate, compliant, and user-friendly documentation, including Instructions for Use (IFUs), guides, labelling, digital content, and lifecycle updates.
The successful candidate will support structured content development, review cycles, localisation readiness, formatting, and controlled release activities while escalating complex content architecture or interpretation issues when required.
Key Responsibilities
1. Content Creation & Maintenance
Create, assemble, and update IFUs, user guides, eHelp, app-related content, and other regulated product documentation.
Transform technical specifications, usability insights, and regulatory requirements into clear end-user content.
Ensure documentation accurately reflects product features, intended use, warnings, precautions, limitations, and instructions.
Develop content using approved templates, terminology, metadata, and style standards.
Prepare content for review, approval, localisation, publication, and release.
2. Structured Authoring & Content Reuse
Apply modular content structures, templates, metadata, and reuse principles to support localisation and lifecycle management.
Identify opportunities to reuse or adapt existing content instead of creating new material.
Maintain consistency between source content, reusable components, outputs, and translation requirements.
Use CCMS and authoring tools in line with established processes and governance standards.
Escalate unclear content ownership, reuse, or structural issues when necessary.
3. Content Quality & Usability
Review content for clarity, accuracy, completeness, consistency, and usability before formal review.
Apply plain-language and user-centred writing principles within regulatory requirements.
Ensure text and visual elements work together to support safe and effective product use.
Resolve or escalate conflicting, incomplete, or unclear source information.
Produce high-quality, structured drafts that minimise downstream rework.
4. Review & Stakeholder Management
Collaborate with Regulatory, R&D, Marketing, Clinical, and other cross-functional teams throughout content reviews.
Incorporate feedback while maintaining compliance with approved requirements, terminology, and content standards.
Track review comments, resolve feedback, and escalate conflicting or architecture-related issues.
Document significant content decisions where traceability is required.
Support final quality checks before localisation, submission, or release.
5. Localisation & Release Readiness
Prepare structured source content for translation and localisation workflows.
Support localisation teams with approved terminology and contextual guidance when required.
Assess translation impacts, version control implications, and release timelines for content updates.
Assist with final content validation, document control requirements, and release preparation activities.
6. Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement
Follow content development, quality, regulatory, and document control procedures.
Use authoring, workflow, review, and document management systems accurately and consistently.
Identify process improvement opportunities across content creation, review, translation, formatting, and release workflows.
Contribute to content standards, reusable assets, checklists, and best practices.
Participate in training related to structured authoring, CCMS, regulatory labelling, and localisation readiness.
What You'll Bring
Required Experience & Skills
Experience in technical writing, regulated content, product documentation, instructional content, labelling, localisation, regulatory operations, or similar environments.
Strong written communication, analytical thinking, stakeholder management, and attention to detail.
Ability to convert complex technical, product, regulatory, or operational information into clear and structured content.
Experience working within regulated environments, quality systems, and controlled processes.
Proficiency in English (written and spoken).
Ability to develop and maintain controlled content using defined standards, templates, tools, and workflows.
Core Competencies
Action Oriented – Takes initiative, addresses challenges proactively, and responds quickly to opportunities and issues.
Manages Ambiguity – Performs effectively in changing environments and seeks clarity when requirements are unclear.
Nimble Learning – Learns quickly, adapts to new situations, and applies lessons learned to improve outcomes.
Cultivates Innovation – Proposes creative solutions, explores alternatives, and continuously looks for improvements.
Preferred Experience
3-5 years of working experience within medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, software, or other regulated industries.
Familiarity with CCMS, structured authoring, modular content, terminology management, translation workflows, or content governance.
Knowledge of EU MDR, ISO 13485, regulatory labelling, usability engineering, or risk-based documentation practices.
Experience with document management, review, and workflow systems.
Education
Degree in Technical Communication, Science, Engineering, Biomedical Science, Communications, Linguistics, Education, or a related field.
Equivalent experience in regulated documentation or technical writing environments will also be considered.
How we recognise your contribution
We want Cochlear to be a place where our people enjoy coming to work. Through our internal programs and employee benefits we aim to create an environment where our people will feel valued and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you. Apply now!
Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlear’s global operations. The growing team of professionals in Malaysia provides critical support in areas such as IT infrastructure and applications, development and testing, business intelligence development and support, procurement, customer service, service and repairs and returned device analysis engineering.
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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Skills Required
- Experience in technical writing, regulated content, product documentation, instructional content, labelling, localisation, or regulatory operations
- Strong written communication, analytical thinking, stakeholder management, and attention to detail
- Ability to convert complex technical, product, regulatory, or operational information into clear structured content
- Experience working within regulated environments, quality systems, and controlled processes
- Proficiency in English (written and spoken)
- Ability to develop and maintain controlled content using defined standards, templates, tools, and workflows
- Degree in Technical Communication, Science, Engineering, Biomedical Science, Communications, Linguistics, Education, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3-5 years' experience within medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, software, or other regulated industries
- Familiarity with CCMS, structured authoring, modular content, terminology management, or translation workflows
- Knowledge of EU MDR, ISO 13485, regulatory labelling, usability engineering, or risk-based documentation practices
- Experience with document management, review, and workflow systems
What We Do
Hear now. And always As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) we are committed to our mission to help people hear and be heard. Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss. Since our formation in 1981, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing. We have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices. Each recipient helps form a global community of millions, through families, friends, colleagues, teachers and more. And they’re not just connected to their own community — each shares a link with each other and to Professor Clark’s childhood desire to help people hear. We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We understand the privilege of connecting people to a life lived with hearing. And we listen, respond and move with the times – to continue to bring hearing within reach of all those who need it. That's how we live our mission every day. Our global workforce of more than 4,000 people shares a collective determination to give more people the opportunity to enjoy a life of hearing. Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through our offices in over 180 countries we help people of all ages to hear. Social Media Terms of Use http://bit.ly/2qRMEvY








