Viam
Staff Technical Writer
New York, NY · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$235kDetected 51 days ago
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About the role
- We're inspiring a generation of engineers to solve complicated automation problems with our uniquely powerful suite of software tools.
- We're a ~100-person company headquartered in New York City.
- Your work spans all four documentation types: reference docs, explanations, tutorials, and how-to guides.
Responsibilities
- Maintain documentation standards and style guidelines that ensure consistency as content scales
- You'll also develop docs from scratch through close collaboration with product engineering teams.
- You are building out or curating content to enable developers without hardware experience to use Viam
- Collaborate Openly
- Lead with Curiosity
Requirements
- Experience writing documentation for developers, with a portfolio that demonstrates your ability to explain technical concepts clearly
- Familiarity with documentation automation-linting tools like Vale, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, or scripting to improve workflows
- The ability to give and receive editorial feedback constructively
- You are comfortable with our toolchain and have started contributing improvements to our workflows
- You are comfortable discussing the product with our engineers for documentation purposes
- You have shipped polished documentation for at least one major platform feature
- You are continuing to revise and improve the Viam documentation
- You are improving the documentation based on qualitative and quantitative data
- You have established documentation standards that scale as the team and content grow
- You have made measurable improvements to our documentation infrastructure and automation
Nice to have
- Experience with docs-as-code workflows: Git, Markdown, static site generators (Hugo experience is a plus)
- Experience with robotics, IoT, or industrial automation is a plus but not required
Skills
- Role summary
Compensation
- The starting salary range for this role is $165,000 - $235,000/year.
Benefits
- 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans, commuter benefits
- 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
- One Medical Membership
- Monthly wellness stipend to be used for a variety of fitness-related items like gym memberships, fitness classes, fitness equipment, and more
- Paid parental leave
- Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
- Yearly Learning and Development Budget for your own personal learning goals
This listing is sourced directly from Viam's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.