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Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions Office Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We support our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while advancing science through solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges. Job Summary When Thermo Fisher Scientific product teams need high-quality user guides or instructional content for reagent kits, software, or instruments, they partner with the Technical Communications team. We collect, analyze, and synthesize technical and product information from multiple sources, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver clear, accurate, and compliant end-user documentation to our customers. What You’ll Do As a Senior Technical Writer, you will lead complex documentation projects and create high-quality user guides and related publications for RUO and IVD/CE-IVD instruments, assays, reagents, and software systems. Your work will make our technologies easier to understand and use for customers who rely on them every day.
This role works closely with scientists, engineers, quality, regulatory, and product teams to translate complex sequencing technologies and clinical studies into high-quality documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
Key responsibilities include: Collect, analyze, and synthesize information from a wide variety of technical and scientific sources and translate it into clear, concise, and user-focused documentation
Author, edit, and maintain documentation supporting clinical sequencing products and workflows, including user guides, technical manuals, SOPs, and internal process documentation
Serve as a strong advocate for clarity, consistency, and usability of technical content in cross-functional program team meetings
Lead documentation-related decision-making for product commercialization, including coordination with legal, regulatory, quality, graphics, style standards, translations, and document control functions.
Collaborate with subject matter experts across R&D, bioinformatics, software, quality, regulatory affairs, manufacturing, and product management to ensure technical accuracy and compliance.
Manage multiple documentation projects or workstreams, including schedules, priorities, dependencies, and deliverables
Ensure documentation aligns with applicable regulatory and quality requirements and supports audits, submissions and inspections.
Train, mentor, and coach other writers within the Technical Communications team; contribute to documentation standards, templates and best practices.
Stay current with life sciences industry standards, regulatory expectations, and competitor documentation practices to continuously improve content quality and effectiveness.
How You’ll Get Here Education: Bachelor’s degree required
Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) or equivalent experience in life sciences strongly preferred
Experience: 4 plus years of technical writing experience in a scientific or life sciences environment
Proven ability to lead multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously
Experience with topic-based authoring and structured content (XML, HTML, DITA preferred)
Proficiency with documentation tools such as Oxygen XML Author or XMetal Author, and Tridion Docs Publication Manager
Experience with SnagIt Editor, Inkscape preferred
Experience with Microsoft Suite
Skills: Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to organize complex information logically and clearly
Strong understanding of technical and scientific concepts, with the ability to adapt structure, tone, and style to meet business and regulatory needs
Excellent interpersonal, project management, and critical-thinking skills
Characteristics: Self-directed and self-motivated, with the ability to work autonomously
Comfortable learning new tools, technologies, and processes quickly
Strong attention to detail and a high standard for quality and accuracy
Compensation and Benefits The salary range estimated for this position based in California is –. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes: A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit:
https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
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Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions Office Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We support our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while advancing science through solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges. Job Summary When Thermo Fisher Scientific product teams need high-quality user guides or instructional content for reagent kits, software, or instruments, they partner with the Technical Communications team. We collect, analyze, and synthesize technical and product information from multiple sources, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver clear, accurate, and compliant end-user documentation to our customers. What You’ll Do As a Senior Technical Writer, you will lead complex documentation projects and create high-quality user guides and related publications for RUO and IVD/CE-IVD instruments, assays, reagents, and software systems. Your work will make our technologies easier to understand and use for customers who rely on them every day.
This role works closely with scientists, engineers, quality, regulatory, and product teams to translate complex sequencing technologies and clinical studies into high-quality documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
Key responsibilities include: Collect, analyze, and synthesize information from a wide variety of technical and scientific sources and translate it into clear, concise, and user-focused documentation
Author, edit, and maintain documentation supporting clinical sequencing products and workflows, including user guides, technical manuals, SOPs, and internal process documentation
Serve as a strong advocate for clarity, consistency, and usability of technical content in cross-functional program team meetings
Lead documentation-related decision-making for product commercialization, including coordination with legal, regulatory, quality, graphics, style standards, translations, and document control functions.
Collaborate with subject matter experts across R&D, bioinformatics, software, quality, regulatory affairs, manufacturing, and product management to ensure technical accuracy and compliance.
Manage multiple documentation projects or workstreams, including schedules, priorities, dependencies, and deliverables
Ensure documentation aligns with applicable regulatory and quality requirements and supports audits, submissions and inspections.
Train, mentor, and coach other writers within the Technical Communications team; contribute to documentation standards, templates and best practices.
Stay current with life sciences industry standards, regulatory expectations, and competitor documentation practices to continuously improve content quality and effectiveness.
How You’ll Get Here Education: Bachelor’s degree required
Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) or equivalent experience in life sciences strongly preferred
Experience: 4 plus years of technical writing experience in a scientific or life sciences environment
Proven ability to lead multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously
Experience with topic-based authoring and structured content (XML, HTML, DITA preferred)
Proficiency with documentation tools such as Oxygen XML Author or XMetal Author, and Tridion Docs Publication Manager
Experience with SnagIt Editor, Inkscape preferred
Experience with Microsoft Suite
Skills: Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to organize complex information logically and clearly
Strong understanding of technical and scientific concepts, with the ability to adapt structure, tone, and style to meet business and regulatory needs
Excellent interpersonal, project management, and critical-thinking skills
Characteristics: Self-directed and self-motivated, with the ability to work autonomously
Comfortable learning new tools, technologies, and processes quickly
Strong attention to detail and a high standard for quality and accuracy
Compensation and Benefits The salary range estimated for this position based in California is –. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes: A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit:
https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
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