Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).
- Own the planning, development, validation, publication, localization, and lifecycle maintenance of documentation for assigned radar hardware products.
- Create user guides, quick-start guides, installation and configuration procedures, system-integration guides, operation and troubleshooting content, and other customer-facing technical materials with a focus on hardware components and assemblies.
- Partner with systems, hardware, software, test/QA, product, support, program management, manufacturing or operations, and training stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
- Author and maintain modular content using DITA XML or other approved structured-authoring formats, applying topic-based writing, metadata, conditional content, and reuse strategies.
- Contribute through Git-based docs-as-code workflows, including branches, commits, pull requests, peer review, issue tracking, change traceability, and automated build or publishing processes.
- Manage multiple documentation initiatives independently, communicate risks early, and adapt plans as product priorities change.
- Six or more years of professional technical-writing experience, including substantial experience documenting complex hardware-and-software products or systems.
- A portfolio or work samples demonstrating clear, task-oriented documentation for technical products; installation, operation, maintenance, integration, or troubleshooting samples are especially relevant.
- Demonstrated ability to learn through hands-on product use and to validate documentation against hardware, software, or realistic test environments.
- Experience with DITA XML or another topic-based structured-authoring methodology, including content reuse, metadata, conditional publishing, and multi-format output.
- Hands-on experience with docs-as-code workflows and Git, including repositories, branches, commits, pull requests or merge requests, peer review, and issue tracking.
- Ability to interpret complex engineering source material and translate it into content that technical and less-technical audiences can understand and act on.
- Strong project-management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to independently prioritize multiple documentation deliverables in a changing environment.
- Bachelor's degree in technical communication, engineering, computer science, English, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
(Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills)
- Experience documenting radar, aerospace, defense, government, industrial, embedded, electronic, or other mission-critical systems.
- Proficiency with Oxygen XML Editor and experience with a component content management system (CCMS), DITA Open Toolkit, XSLT, CSS, or related publishing technologies.
- Familiarity with Agile product development, engineering change control, release management, and documentation traceability.
- Experience creating technical diagrams, annotated product images, or other visual explanations from engineering source material.
Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.
WHAT WE OFFERThis is an exempt role.If your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!
We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:
- RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
- Generous Benefits:
- Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you
- Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA
- Virtual Care – 98Point6
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)
- Travel Assistance Insurance
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability
- Flexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)
- 401(k) match
- Pet Insurance
- Prepaid Legal Program
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Company Holidays
All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- Six or more years of professional technical-writing experience, including substantial experience documenting complex hardware-and-software products or systems.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating clear, task-oriented technical product documentation, especially installation, operation, maintenance, integration, or troubleshooting content.
- Ability to learn through hands-on product use and validate documentation against hardware, software, or realistic test environments.
- Experience with DITA XML or another topic-based structured-authoring methodology, including content reuse, metadata, conditional publishing, and multi-format output.
- Hands-on experience with docs-as-code workflows and Git, including repositories, branches, commits, pull requests or merge requests, peer review, and issue tracking.
- Ability to interpret complex engineering source material and translate it into understandable, actionable content for technical and less-technical audiences.
- Strong project-management skills, attention to detail, and ability to independently prioritize multiple documentation deliverables in a changing environment.
- Bachelor's degree in technical communication, engineering, computer science, English, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience documenting radar, aerospace, defense, government, industrial, embedded, electronic, or other mission-critical systems.
- Proficiency with Oxygen XML Editor and experience with a component content management system, DITA Open Toolkit, XSLT, CSS, or related publishing technologies.
- Familiarity with Agile product development, engineering change control, release management, and documentation traceability.
- Experience creating technical diagrams, annotated product images, or other visual explanations from engineering source material.
Echodyne Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Echodyne and has not been reviewed or approved by Echodyne.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare premiums for employees are fully paid, and medical, dental, and vision options are consistently cited as strong parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO for salaried staff and structured accruals plus paid holidays for hourly employees indicate broad time-off support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is noted, alongside company-paid life and disability insurance that strengthens financial security.
Echodyne Insights
What We Do
Echodyne designs and builds advanced radar solutions that unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays. Our combination of patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology with powerful software ultimately means significantly greater situational awareness that increases safety and saves lives. Our first radar is the size of a paperback book, weighs less than bowling pin, draws less power than a light bulb, yet outperforms every comparable radar on the market. We are just getting started. Echodyne delivers commercial radar solutions for end users and integrators in Government and Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Autonomous Vehicle markets globally. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington and backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona Venture Group, Baillie Gifford, Vulcan Capital, Vanedge Capital, and Irongrey among others. Discover more at echodyne.com.
