Experienced Technical Writer - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Frontier Developments plc.

Frontier Developments plc.

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Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including
_Elite Dangerous_,
_Planet Coaster_,
_Jurassic World Evolution_,
_ Planet Zoo _and
_ F1 Manager_. Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England.

With a growing team of over 800 talented people supporting our existing portfolio and ambitious future roadmap, along with our publishing label Frontier Foundry, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.

About the role
We are looking for an experienced Technical Writer join our technical writing team within the Shared Technology Group (STG). Our Shared Technology Group is primarily responsible for developing and maintaining our in-house engine, Cobra.

They also serve as a group of domain experts to advise game teams on technical problems, best practice, and use of Cobra for their games.

The different audiences in this case are the many game development teams that are using Cobra every day to make our portfolio of ambitious titles.

Every game development team comprises a mixture of different skill areas such as artists, animators, audio designers, designers, programmers and more.

Each of these skill areas have differing needs for their documentation.

You will work with representatives for each of these areas to tailor the presentation and content to their specific needs.

Responsibilities:

Work with internal (STG) and external (game and outsource) teams to obtain an indepth understanding of Cobra, how it is used and the documentation requirements.
Produce highquality documentation and tutorials that are appropriate for audiences with differing needs.
Help maintain and improve our internal standards and style guide.
Mentor and assist other members of the studio to produce and maintain documentation and tutorials of their own.
Review other technical writers to maintain our inhouse standards.

About You:

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Essential:

Fluent English writing and verbal communication skills.
Professional experience in writing software documentation for a variety of audiences.
Ability to deliver high quality documentation with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to quickly grasp complex technical and development concepts and make them easily understandable in text, pictures, and/or videos.
Experience working in wikibased media.

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Desirable:

Experience working in the games industry.
Experience with Confluence and Jira.

What we can offer you

We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company's success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.

Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff.

We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes a success-based annual bonus, share option schemes, pension, life assurance, private family healthcare, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity package, in-house subsidised catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing, and social events.