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Technical Author
OXTS —Middleton Stoney
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- No degree
- APIs
- Communication skills
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- Organisational skills
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- Full-time
- Schematics
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- Programmable logic controllers
- Bachelor's degree
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Technical Author

OXTS
Middleton Stoney

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time

Benefits

Casual dress
Company pension
Private medical insurance
Car scheme

Qualifications

Firmware
Confluence
Technical writing
APIs
Communication skills

Full job description

Description

We’re looking for a hands‑on Technical Author to take full ownership of our customer‑facing documentation across a growing product portfolio. In this role, you’ll lead the documentation strategy and deliver high‑quality content including “getting started” guides, API and configuration references, and full product technical manuals.

The Technical Author manages the complete documentation lifecycle end‑to‑end, planning, writing, reviewing, and working closely with engineers and product teams to ensure our customers have clear, accurate, and accessible information that helps them get the most from our technology.

Key Responsibilities

Own the documentation portfolio for current and upcoming products, defining scope, standards, and priorities.
Produce clear, structured customer-facing content including getting-started guides, user manuals, installation and configuration guides, troubleshooting materials, videos, and reference documentation.
Translate complex engineering concepts into accurate, accessible documentation for technical users and integrators, using a range of media and publication channels.
Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and customer support to gather information, verify accuracy, and incorporate feedback.
Create and maintain templates, style guides, and documentation workflows to ensure consistency across the product set.
Manage documentation releases alongside product releases, keeping content synchronised with firmware and software updates.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential:

In-depth experience creating customer-facing documentation for technology or engineering products (hardware, software, embedded systems, navigation/GNSS, networking, IoT, or similar).
Proven ability to author both comprehensive product manuals and concise getting-started guides.
Experience launching technical documentation across different channels and media.
A natural, collaborative approach that draws on technical and domain experts across the business.
Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams to gather subject‑matter expertise.
Solid technical comprehension, with the ability to read engineering specifications, sample code, diagrams, and translate them into user-focused content.
Clear, concise technical writing skills combined with strong editing capability.
Demonstrated ownership mindset with the ability to manage multiple documentation projects and release timelines.

Desirable:

Related degree preferred, not required.
Experience with hardware, software, and API documentation, including sample code and advanced command descriptions.
Familiarity with documentation publishing platforms (e.g., Read the Docs, Confluence, static site generators) and automated documentation build processes.
Background or interest in navigation systems (GPS/GNSS), mapping, or vehicle/embedded systems.

Key Behaviours and Attributes:

Proactive, independent, and able to take full ownership of documentation efforts.
Strong communicator and collaborator; able to ask the right questions and synthesise answers.
Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and usability.
Comfortable balancing speed and quality in a fast-paced product development environment

Benefits

Discretionary annual profit share bonus
Holiday entitlement of 27 days plus bank holidays
5% employee and 5% employer contributions through our via our salary sacrifice workplace pension scheme with Scottish Widows
Group Income Protection Insurance Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
Death In Service Scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Smart casual dress code

About OXTS

At OXTS we’re passionate about inertial navigation and how we can help our customers with our technology. With two decades of experience in combining the best of high precision GNSS receivers and world-class inertial navigation expertise, OXTS’ products have become the industry standard for automotive testing and are widely used in other industries.

The highly accurate RT3000 products are the equipment of choice for vehicle dynamics testing. Our products are used by major car manufacturers and automotive test facilities around the world for applications such as handling and dynamics evaluation, brake testing, steering robot guidance and many more. With the RT-Range S products, OXTS also offers a complete solution for validating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to Euro and global NCAP standards and for developing the self-driving cars of the future.

Away from the automotive world, our range of combined, compact GNSS/INS systems are also used for airborne and vehicle-based survey and mobile mapping applications, where continuous position and high accuracy orientation information is essential for georeferencing sensor data.

OXTS’ GNSS/INS products are supplied with a comprehensive software suite including powerful data analysis and post-processing applications. We also provide a full technical support service, plus a bespoke technology integration consultancy via our Application Engineering department. Our products are sold and supported globally through a network of channel partners in more than 20 countries worldwide, to provide customers with a local point of contact and support.

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