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