Staff Technical Writer - Markham, Canada - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Verified Company

Markham, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Overview:

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world.

Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences - the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded.

Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. This is who we are at our best. One Company. One Team.

AMD together we advance_

Responsibilities:

Technical Writer

THE ROLE:

This role's main objective is to create and transform our internal engineering-centric documents for external consumptions.

Through ensuring easy access & improving the ability to consume and understand our technologies, this role will allow for an increased pace of onboarding and adopting our solutions both internally and for customers/partners.

Helping us translate complex technology concepts into digestible reading that does not lose its essence in written and/or video format.

Further, you will craft customer facing technical documents, enabling quick uptake of our products and technologies in the hands of our clients.

In this position, you will be working as a member of a high-performing team, which will have you working with teams across multiple sites.

THE PERSON:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Craft customer facing technical documents to enable quick uptake of our products and technologies in the hands of our clients
Knowledge manager to support all ATG technologies in information sharing and fast onboarding
Plan and create content to better support program delivery and customer acceptance
Edit and proofread documents written by others and coach nonwriters to improve their writing skills
Reviewing & updating our documentation storage and access structure to improve efficiency
Reviewing & updating our documentation templates and setting expectation for each type of document
Setting and monitoring KPI (Key Performance Indicators) metrics to gauge the quality and completeness of documentation to better understand, isolate and fix documentation related issues
Evaluating and implementing documentation sharing solutions including access control as needed
Working with Technical Program Managers and Managers for all programs to understand the documentation gaps

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Handson and supervising role of technical writing experience in a fastpaced semiconductor industry
Direct working experiences in computer vision, AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), and graphics preferred
Able to create content from scratch and architect information sharing solutions
Able to provide a portfolio of writing samples for review
Ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies
Excellent problemsolving skills
Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills
Background in computer science