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Lead Technical Writer

Radiance Technologies, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45444

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HR101988**About the Program:** Radiance Technologies is the prime developer in support of the SAFE-SiM program, a next-generation Modeling, Simulation, and Analytics (MS&A) application that provides insight into complex battlefield questions to inform senior leaders across the defense and intelligence communities. SAFE-SiM delivers faster-than-real-time simulation of real-world scenarios at scale, using sensitive data protected by some of the most stringent security requirements. The platform enables collaboration among modelers, analysts, and operational developers across multiple clearance levels.**About the Position:** As the SAFE-SiM program enters its next phase of development, the Lead Technical Writer plays a critical role in elevating the quality, consistency, and strategic impact of all program documentation and media. This role is responsible for owning the technical writing vision for the program and ensuring documentation standards are defined, enforced, and continuously improved.The Lead Technical Writer will work closely with program leadership, engineering team leads, and stakeholders to produce polished, professional, and user-centered documentation across multiple formats. In addition to hands-on content creation, this role will guide documentation strategy, mentor associate and mid-level writers, and serve as the primary authority on documentation best practices for the program. The work produced will directly shape how end-users (customers) experience SAFE-SiM.If you are looking to make a visible, high-impact contribution to a mission-critical program while leading by example, we encourage you to apply.**About the Company**: The successful applicant will join a world-class group of employee-owners across the United States and enjoy benefits that are unmatched by most companies in the Huntsville, AL or Dayton, OH areas. In addition to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Radiance Technologies offers generous 401K, full health, dental, life, and vision insurance benefits, parental leave, educational reimbursement, competitive salaries, interesting assignments, and an exceptional work environment.**Required:*** Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, English, Engineering, or a related discipline* 5+ years of experience in Academic, Commercial, or DoD technical writing* US citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance* Demonstrated leadership in technical communication, including mentoring or reviewing the work of other technical writers and the ability to collaborate and influence across technical teams, program leadership, and external stakeholders* Proven excellence in written and visual communication, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, audience-appropriate content* Experience owning documentation standards, style guides, and overall documentation quality across a program* Proven experience with file versioning and collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Confluence, git, or Subversion* Ability to create and oversee media in multiple formats including text, graphics, and video* Familiarity with Microsoft Office and Adobe tool suites* Familiarity with formatting languages such as HTML and Markdown**Desired:*** Experience with web design and web content creation* Experience with modern documentation platforms and tools such as VS Code and JetBrains* Familiarity with Documentation as Code practices* Familiarity with automated tools for enforcing style, quality, and grammar such as Vale or Grazie* Experience working within Agile development environments* Working knowledge of software development concepts and basic programming languages* Active SECRET security clearanceEOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled**Employee-Ownership****Our Culture**Radiance’s culture is driven by our commitment to our customers and our employee-owners. Our employee-owners thrive on entrepreneurship, empowerment, and mutual responsibility for growth and sustainability. Our culture consists of individuals who embody technical and leadership skills to deliver superior solutions to the nation’s toughest technical challenges. We believe building trust and credibility with our customers leads to long-term results. We invest in a superior technical workforce where leaders are developed, innovation is encouraged, and achievements are recognized. We seek innovative ways to improve, experiment, take risks, foster collaboration, and empower our employee-owners.**Our Values**Our values drive our culture, business model, and daily interactions. These values constantly remind us of who we are and what we do. Our employee-owners influence how we operate our business. We relentlessly pursue operating excellence by innovating, improving our processes, and reducing waste. We believe in being wise and ethical stewards of capital and resources.Our values dictate how we interact with each other and our customers, partners, and suppliers. Honesty, trust, humanity, alignment, and value creation require that we treat our employees with dignity and respect and provide them with fair compensation and equal employment opportunity.We believe in connecting with our communities and have a responsibility to be good corporate citizens, and we believe in sustainable business practices, which include supporting the environment and the communities in which we work.Radiance is a proud employee-owned company! Employee-ownership benefits both our customers and workforce, and ensures that Radiance doesn’t have to answer to stockholders or be driven by quarterly earnings reports. Thus, Radiance will always prioritize enhancing our customer’s mission over expanding our bottom line. We are singularly focused on providing our customers with game-changing solutions to their most challenging requirements. This is only possible because employee-ownership attracts the highest quality employees, empowers them to identify capability enhancements, and provides them with the freedom to take risks to deliver high-quality solutions. Employee-ownership also provides tangible and long-term financial security for our people and their families. Therefore, employee-ownership embodies participation, empowerment, freedom, teaming, excellence, accountability, mission focus, and security. #J-18808-Ljbffr