Senior Technical Writer

Location: Chennai, India

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.

About The Opportunity

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aptiv, seeks an Intermediate Technical Writer to join our Information Development department. As part of this department, you will integrate with a team of developers to produce world-class documentation for the Wind River Studio Developer product.

Wind River Studio Developer is a modern DevOps platform designed to accelerate the development, testing, and deployment of mission-critical embedded systems. It provides a unified environment for developers, testers, and operators to collaborate efficiently, leveraging cloud-based tools like Studio Pipelines, Virtual Lab, and Test Automation. With support for continuous integration, over-the-air updates, and real-time feedback loops, Studio Developer streamlines workflows and enhances productivity across the entire software lifecycle

Wind River is looking for an Senior Technical Writer to integrate with a team of developers to produce world class documentation for the Wind River Studio Developer product.

Responsibilities:

• Work in DITA XML to write user-centric, task-oriented content for the administration, deployment, and management of the Studio Developer product.
• Work with Jira to track stories and bugs assigned to you.
• Update and rewrite existing content to bring it in line with current product functionality, DITA content structure and standards.
• Interview subject-matter experts, participate in review meetings, and collaborate with engineers in various geographic locations to create and update content.
• You must be comfortable working independently and asking questions to gain hands-on experience with the product.
• You must be comfortable with the embedded development lifecycle and tools for managing system image builds.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3-8 years of experience working as a technical writer.
• Excellent verbal and written skills in the English language.
• Experience in conceptual and procedural writing.
• Good technical and communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work efficiently with colleagues across geographic locations and time zones.
• Experience in creating technical documentation with a DITA based structured authoring tool such as Ixiasoft.
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience writing in an Agile development environment.
• Experience with command-line tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with or knowledge of:
• Platform security features like RBAC
• Cloud storage best practices
• Embedded development
• Use of virtualization tools such as Docker and QEMU
• Experience with Linux and Android operating systems.
• Experience with DevSecOps development methodology.
• Experience in creating technical documentation using reStructured text/Sphinx.
• Experience working with a repository management system such as GitLab or Bitbucket.

• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work. 
• Medical insurance: Group Medical Insurance coverage. 
• Additional shared cost medical benefit in the form of reimbursements. 
• Employee Assistance Program. 
• Vacation and Time off: Employees are eligible for various types of paid time off. 
• Additional Time off’s – Birthday, Volunteer Time off, Wedding. 
• Wellness Benefits through  Unmind 
• Carrot (Family -forming support)