Technical Writer - Qualcomm - Guyancourt, France
Qualcomm · Guyancourt, Yvelines, France ·
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Qualcomm · Guyancourt, Yvelines, France ·
General Summary:
Title: Technical Writer (Intermediate)
Contract: Permanent, full-time — French Contrat à Durée Indéterminée (CDI)
Location: On-site, Guyancourt (78), France
Compensation & Benefits: Qualcomm offers a competitive compensation and benefits package commensurate with skills and experience, including all benefits required under French law.
Recruiting Status: Open — applications are welcomed immediately.
Why Join QITC?
Join Qualcomm’s Interconnect Technology Center (QITC) and become a key technical communicator helping shape how cutting-edge Network-on-Chip (NoC) technologies are understood and adopted by thousands of SoC engineers worldwide.
This role offers:
Role Description
This position is ideal for a bilingual French–English technical writer with at least 2–5 years of experience in microelectronics or closely related high-technology fields, such as telecommunications, AI/ML, robotics, or advanced computing.
You will join a small, highly technical Technical Writing Team (TWT) within QITC and contribute to end-user documentation for state-of-the-art NoC technologies. Your work will directly support the deployment of innovations that will reach the public in the coming years.
In addition to authoring technical documentation, you will contribute to the broader documentation ecosystem by:
Content is authored within a strongly typed editorial workflow, producing English-language text and visual material directly in a relational, object-oriented authoring database. Publications are delivered periodically to a large internal audience of Qualcomm hardware and software designers, architects, and verification engineers.
Technical Environment and Growth
QITC operates in a highly demanding, engineering-driven R&D context. As a result, you will progressively acquire deep technical expertise and develop the ability to engage with engineers on equal footing.
You will:
Over time, this position enables you to become a technical communication subject-matter expert across QITC technologies. In return, you will face continuous and stimulating intellectual challenges.
Information Gathering & Editorial Work
A core part of the role is technical information analysis and synthesis. You will extract and validate information from diverse sources, including:
Information is obtained through document analysis, meeting participation (often conducted in French), and, more rarely, one-on-one interviews with engineering Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
Sources may be formal or informal, incomplete, evolving, or distributed across heterogeneous systems. The ability to evaluate source reliability, structure information, and restitute it clearly, consistently, concisely, and comprehensively is essential. Just as essential is your ability to acquire knowlegde, so that you can describe technology that you have made yours.
Personal Qualities
To succeed in this role, you should demonstrate:
This role is a strong fit if you:
Minimum qualifications
and
Equivalent professional experience and demonstrable skills may compensate for formal education requirements. We encourage out-of-the-box, outstanding applications!
Required Skills
Bonus Skills
Language Skills
All publications are produced in English.
This role requires:
This is essential, as technical meetings and interviews with SMEs are frequently conducted in French, often at a fast technical pace.
How to Apply
Submit a résumé and cover letter in both English and French.
Interviews will be conducted on site or remotely, depending on circumstances.
Important: Non–European Union candidates must already have, or be eligible for, French residency and work authorization. Qualcomm provides significant assistance throughout this process.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Communications, English, or related field and 2+ years of experience writing and editing software and/or hardware documentation and content, or related work experience.*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.
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