Work Schedule

First Shift (Days)

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 single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

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.

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.

Key responsibilities include

• Collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing information from a wide variety of technical and scientific sources and translating it into clear, concise end-user documentation
• Serving as a strong advocate for clarity, consistency, and usability of technical content in cross-functional program team meetings
• Leading documentation-related decision-making for product commercialization, including legal review, regulatory review, graphics, style standards, translations, and document control
• Managing multiple documentation projects or workstreams, including schedules, priorities, and deliverables
• Training, mentoring, and coaching other writers within the Technical Communications team
• Staying current with life sciences industry standards, regulatory expectations, and competitor documentation practices

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field required
• Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) or equivalent experience in life sciences strongly preferred
• Minimum of 4 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 FrameMaker, InDesign, RoboHelp, and/or Microsoft Word

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
• 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 $103,100.00–$137,500.00.

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