Technical Writing Assistant
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The Technical Writing Assistant supports project leads across multiple projects by helping create and maintain technical user guides, O&M manuals, and other documents. The role also contributes to testing and verification of sonar components, peer editing and publishing, documentation-team IT processes, and photography and videography support.
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Full job description
Supports project leads by performing the duties of a support writer on multiple projects. This includes assisting with the writing and maintenance of technical user guides, OandM manuals, and other documents in HTML, PDF, and Microsoft Word formats as well as maintaining assigned Gitlab issues. Participates in testing and verification of sonar components, as needed, in office and field environments to develop and validate technical documentation. Participates in peer editing and publishing processes. Participates as a member of the documentation team internal IT working group and supports the management of IT resources, processes, and internal documentation. Provides photography and videography support to the documentation team, including capturing and editing multimedia content as needed.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 824 open Technical Writer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$64–106K/yr21 salary ranges
- US median$36–41/hr131 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Technical Writer jobs in Texas and 824 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)8 open
- Saronic Technologies7 open
- L3Harris4 open
- Experience
- Technical Writer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (571 postings).
- Education
- 258 of the 824 open Technical Writer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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