Technical Writer

VAST Data is looking for a Technical Writer to join our growing team!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."- Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

Main Responsibilities

· Researching, developing, writing, reviewing and updating product documentation such as User Guides, Installation Guides, API Guides, Release Notes,

Online Helps, etc.

· Ensuring the technical accuracy, quality, clarity and completeness of the documentation set for a product release, as part of a team.

· Working independently, yet collaboratively and flexibly, as a team player on dynamic, challenging projects with team members located on-site and in

distributed global locations

· 5+ years’ industry experience as an effective technical writer documenting software and hardware to technical audiences.

·       3+ years' experience in a software development environment

·       Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to express ideas and concepts clearly.

·       Strong and proven core technical writing skills, including precise US English grammar and ability to implement a consistent technical writing style.

·       Strong ability to analyze large amounts of technical product information and extract relevant information for customer-facing documentation.

·       Ability to self-manage multiple assignments.

·       Proactive and results-driven, positive attitude and strong work ethic.

·       English at mother-tongue level.

·       Experience authoring in a component-based content management system with single sourcing content reuse.

·       Strong graphic sense, experience with professional graphics tools

·       Knowledge of storage domains (advantage)

·       Technical background (advantage)

·       Experience using Paligo (advantage)

·       Knowledge of CSS, HTML (advantage)