Vacancies – Technical Author and similar jobs

# 4537 Contract Technical Author, WFH (EU or UK), 3 months (poss extension to 12 months)

Our client is a company that provides a distributed data platform. They are looking for a contractor to work with its small team of Technical Authors. The team writes its content on GitHub, using AsciiDoc and Antora. The documentation is primarily used by developers.

They are looking for an experienced Technical Author who is comfortable writing documentation for a developer audience and/or about cloud services. Some of the work involves documenting command line prompts, and writing how to set up the software with tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

They have an initial project, which is to migrate some existing content written in MDX to their AsciiDoc/Antora/GitHub environment. They estimate this will take approximately three months. If that is successful, they anticipate there will be additional projects extending the contract for nine more months. The additional projects will be writing rather than migration work.

They would consider someone who wanted to work part time. You would work from home.

You must be:

  • An experienced Technical Author with excellent writing skills
  • Comfortable writing for a developer audience
  • Based in the UK or EU
  • Not afraid to ask questions

# 4536 Contract Senior Technical Author, WFH (EU or UK) or on site, 6 months

Our client is in the semiconductor/hardware IT sector, developing products that are used for creating Artificial Intelligence. They are looking for a Senior Technical Author contractor to work with their team.

You will create and manage the technical content for their (primarily hardware) products, and also be able to lead and develop the small documentation team. They write user guides, API documentation, release notes, and technical articles.

The role can be based fully remote in the UK/EU, or you can work from one of their European offices (they have offices in BE, CH, IT, NL, and the UK). In other words, you must be based in the Europe, and already be legally able to work there.

The initial contract will be for six months, with the potential for further contract extensions. Rate negotiable.

You must have:

  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical Communication, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years experience in technical writing, ideally in a complex technology environment.
  • Familiarity with documentation generation tools such as Sphinx or Read the Docs, and the ability to create content across multiple platforms.
  • Experience of using version control systems, such as Git.
  • Excellent technical writing skills.

Contract Technical Author/Writer/Documentarian

We’re looking to extend our network of freelance Technical Author/Writer/Documentarians with whom we can work. Sometimes, we use what we call Associates on projects. Sometimes we also have clients that want to hire a contractor for a fixed period of time.

We’re seeing an increase in enquiries about:

  • Writing content for APIs/developer portals
  • Checking the API calls and code samples on a site are correct
  • Creating tutorials for developer portals
  • Improving the clarity and flow of API-related content

Some of these will come in, some may not. At this point, we’re in the planning and preparation stages.

Our preference is to work with people who are on the same timezone as us (or our customers), so that means you should be in the UK or mainland Europe. We do have some clients in the USA, so that location may also be an option.

In the UK and the USA, you need to work via a limited company. This is for tax reasons.

Rates vary depending on the customer. Our project work is typically done remotely. Clients that want to hire a contractor often want that person to work on site, at least for 2 or 3 days per week.

If you think we should know about you, then contact us via info@cherryleaf.com.

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