Unity is seeking a technical writer to join our Unity Standards team, responsible for writing technical standards to drive consistency and quality throughout the global R&D organisation and beyond.
You will provide guidance and assistance to help take a proposal from idea to draft to published standard, working with area specialists to ensure robustness and accuracy, and validating each standard’s usefulness for the wider Unity community.
Working alongside the Brighton-based Release Engineering Group (responsible for coordinating the release of Unity to millions of developers and billions of end-users), you'll collaborate with multiple teams as well as teams across our European and worldwide offices, with opportunities to travel.
This is a unique opportunity to grow your technical writing skills in a new and exciting area for Unity, and one that will have a direct impact on the quality of our products.
What you’ll be doing
- Writing and editing standards to an exceptionally high level of quality
- Leading and coordinating standards projects, from idea through to drafting and release
- Working with software developers to help them provide validation scripts for new standards
- Helping evolve and improve Unity Standards concepts, tools, and processes
- Auditing and maintaining existing standards
What we’re looking for
- Experience in software technical writing
- A passion for writing and language with an impeccable standard of written and spoken English
- A good understanding of technology and a natural affinity for software development
- A curious mind, willing to ask questions and dig for answers with a talent for simplifying complexity
You might also have
- Software development experience
- Good knowledge of JIRA, including workflow creation and administration
- Working in an Agile environment with distributed teams across different time zones
- Familiarity with source control tools and processes
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company’s 1,800+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020.
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