Top Technical Writer Jobs

Writes, edits, and quality-checks technical publications, including manuals, procedures, specifications, and operational documents. Interviews engineers and product developers, reviews technical references and engineering materials, and oversees diagrams, charts, and other illustrations. The role requires a relevant bachelor's or master's degree, U.S. citizenship, eligibility for a Secret clearance and program special access, and approximately 10% travel.

Authors, edits, proofreads, and maintains technical documentation for flight avionics systems. Coordinates content from subject matter experts into integrated product team documents, ensures technical and formatting compliance, manages configuration control, and applies classification markings in classified and unclassified environments. Communicates complex technical information to engineering teams, management, subcontractors, and customers while maintaining accuracy and consistency across reports, procedures, manuals, and presentations.

Writes, rewrites, and edits technical manuals, procedures, specifications, and related publications. Interviews developers, reviews engineering data and technical references, oversees illustrations and diagrams, and conducts quality reviews. The role supports aviation and aerospace technical publications, including XML/S1000D authoring, configuration management, and multi-configuration parts lists. A Secret clearance and ability to obtain SAP clearance are required.

Write technically accurate case studies, articles, product explainers, launch materials, and social content for AI engineers, researchers, and technical leaders. Interview customers, partners, and internal experts; learn HUD’s platform and workflows; explain technical products and research clearly; support founder communications; manage content from ideation through publication; and improve content using reader and go-to-market feedback.

Reviews, edits, and develops technical documents, white papers, reports, policies, SOPs, memorandums, briefings, and official Army correspondence. Applies classification and dissemination markings, maintains templates, version control, repositories, and document routing, and ensures compliance with SCGs, OPSEC, Army/DoD writing standards, and organizational style guidelines. Collaborates with SMEs, engineers, and government personnel to produce clear, accurate, audience-appropriate documentation.

Develops and maintains technical procedures, specifications, operating and maintenance manuals, fabrication procedures, and acceptance test documentation for nuclear energy equipment and facilities. Reviews engineering and fabrication drawings, supports design changes and regulatory requirements, maintains technical records, and assists plant personnel with procedure interpretation. Coordinates with engineers, fabricators, clients, and site organizations while managing multiple documentation projects and schedules. Travel may be required.

Creates, edits, proofreads, and maintains technical documentation for avionics systems within the Fleet Ballistic Missile program. Coordinates content from subject matter experts, ensures documents meet technical and military documentation standards, manages configuration control, and applies proper classification markings. Communicates complex technical information clearly to engineering teams, management, subcontractors, and customers while working onsite in classified and unclassified environments.

Writes, edits, and reviews technical manuals, procedures, specifications, and related publications. Translates complex engineering information into clear documentation for varied audiences, collaborates with technical experts, oversees illustrations and diagrams, and ensures accuracy, clarity, and grammatical quality. Requires a bachelor’s degree in technical writing, communications, English, journalism, or a related field, plus proficiency with Microsoft Office and SharePoint.

Provides technical writing, editing, proofreading, and communications support to NGA Research’s Strategic Partnerships and Communications Directorate. Produces accurate, complete publications and media materials that meet government editorial, formatting, classification, source, graphics, and style standards. Supports research leadership and government program offices while handling sensitive documents in compliance with clean-desk requirements.

Provides senior technical writing, editing, proofreading, communications, and graphic design support to NGA Research’s Strategic Partnerships and Communications Directorate. Develops accurate, complete publications and media products that meet government editorial, classification, formatting, source, and style standards. Supports research directorate and senior leadership offices while handling sensitive documents and maintaining compliance with clean-desk requirements. The position requires a current TS/SCI clearance, strong written and verbal communication skills, and willingness to undergo a CI polygraph.

Develops compliant, persuasive technical and management proposal content for federal opportunities. Partners with technical SMEs, capture and proposal managers to translate solutions into evaluator-focused narratives, verify solicitation compliance, edit and organize content, manage multiple deadlines, support color team reviews, tailor resumes, mentor writers, and improve reusable content and proposal processes.

Leads technical documentation strategy and production for mission systems, software, data platforms, intelligence workflows, and secure IT environments. Researches and edits system documents, guides, SOPs, training materials, compliance artifacts, and executive content. Establishes documentation standards, manages reviews and version control, coordinates classification and security requirements, mentors writers, and performs quality control. Works daily in a SCIF and collaborates with engineers, analysts, security personnel, legal stakeholders, and program leadership.

Develops compliant federal proposals, RFQ/RFP responses, and quotes for contract vehicles including SEWP, ITES-4H, and GSA MAS. Reviews solicitations, builds compliance matrices, interprets FAR/DFARS and CLIN requirements, and transforms technical input from engineering and service teams into persuasive proposal narratives. Coordinates with sales, OEMs, partners, and contracting teams while maintaining response data, version control, pricing documentation, and contract artifacts. Supports KPI reporting, lessons learned, and continuous improvement of proposal processes.

Creates, updates, and maintains technical documentation for data center operations and critical infrastructure, including SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, SOOs, manuals, and troubleshooting guides. Collaborates with engineers and subject matter experts to translate complex concepts into clear documentation, develops diagrams and training materials, manages version control, reviews content for accuracy and compliance, and documents installations, upgrades, and process improvements.

Create and maintain technical documentation for cloud services, CI/CD tools, and container platforms. Develop runbooks, SOPs, user guides, diagrams, workflows, templates, and publishing standards. Collaborate with engineering teams and government stakeholders to translate system changes into accurate guidance. Govern documentation throughout the service lifecycle, use approved automation and AI tools, and independently manage priorities in an Agile environment.

Own documentation strategy for a software product area, write and edit technical guides and reference documentation, test features using APIs and command-line tools, maintain docs-as-code content, collaborate with product managers, engineers, field teams, and other technical writers, and improve documentation workflows, version control, automation, and platform capabilities.

Leads the creation, editing, governance, and lifecycle management of technical documentation for mission systems, analytic tools, and intelligence workflows. Produces system documents, user guides, SOPs, compliance artifacts, briefings, and executive summaries; coordinates reviews across technical, security, legal, and program stakeholders; ensures classification and accessibility compliance; mentors writers; and supports agile and DevSecOps environments. The role is performed daily in a SCIF and requires an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Develop and manage comprehensive technical documentation for complex power infrastructure products, including installation, commissioning, operations, service, safety, and troubleshooting materials. Translate engineering concepts into clear customer content, establish documentation standards, manage publication projects, and administer an online document portal. Coordinate with engineering, product, IT, sales, deployment, and service teams, while supporting localization and occasional site visits.

Create and maintain technical documentation for autonomous surface vessels, including standard operating procedures, work instructions, and internal guides. Collaborate with engineers, designers, production teams, and stakeholders to translate complex concepts into clear end-user content. Review documentation for accuracy and compliance with industry and DoD standards, manage multiple projects, incorporate feedback, and continuously improve documentation.

Develop user-focused documentation, eLearning courses, training materials, release notes, change logs, blog posts, and customer-facing content for a utility billing platform. Collaborate with developers, subject matter experts, and project teams to translate complex technical information into clear end-user materials. Administer LMS content and enforce branding, formatting, templates, and document standards across Microsoft and other deliverables.

Lead an audit and overhaul of an enterprise ServiceNow Knowledge Base. Create clear procedures, runbooks, guides, and articles for technical and non-technical audiences; establish content standards, templates, taxonomy, metadata, and lifecycle processes; collaborate with subject matter experts to validate accuracy; manage the writing queue; and update content as systems and workflows evolve.

Develop and maintain technical documentation, manuals, procedures, reports, and guides for Navy and USMC C4ISR systems. Collaborate with engineers, testers, and technical teams to translate complex information into accessible content, review and edit team documentation, maintain version control, follow DoD standards, support process improvement, and manage multiple priorities. The role requires strong communication, organization, collaboration, and technical writing skills, along with an active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Lead the strategy and execution of customer onboarding and Getting Started content for Elastic products. Create cohesive, user-focused journeys that guide customers from initial setup through successful deployment and feature adoption. Partner with Product, Field, and Documentation teams to align content with product roadmaps and customer needs. Use user research, support feedback, analytics, and telemetry to identify friction, improve time-to-value, and support trial-to-paid conversion.

Develops, maintains, and governs procedural documentation supporting operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and service quality. Researches business processes, interviews stakeholders, translates complex requirements into clear guidance, creates visual aids, manages documentation projects and reviews, tracks regulatory and system changes, and coordinates procedure implementation across operations, member services, compliance, and retail teams.

Leads the planning, creation, editing, and lifecycle management of technical documentation for intelligence, software, data, cloud, and enterprise IT systems. Develops guides, procedures, design documents, compliance artifacts, and executive materials; establishes documentation standards; coordinates reviews across technical and security stakeholders; manages classification markings; supports docs-as-code workflows; and mentors junior writers. The role requires working in a daily SCIF and handling sensitive information.