Technical Writer (m/f/d)

October 22, 2026

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München, Germany

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Office-only work

Description

Apple's Hardware Group is looking for a systems-minded specialist to join the HW Tech Docs team and support the internal documentation platform built around CLIs, web UIs and APIs for silicon designers and architects. The role starts as the primary quality gateway and User Acceptance Testing driver between software development and production releases, using test insights and author feedback to push the platform product forward. The person will define future features, communicate quality metrics and roadmap priorities to leadership, and gradually move into product ownership, cross-functional orchestration and platform advocacy.

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Responsibilities

Design, execute and maintain end-to-end user acceptance test plans for new platform releases
Validate user journeys across complex structured publishing workflows
Integrate AI-driven and automated testing workflows into release validation
Triage, report and track critical issues with engineering teams in Jira before general release
Act as the connective link between Software Development, Platform Support, Applications and End-User Engineering teams
Identify systemic author pain points with Support and Applications leads and convert them into platform enhancements
Turn repetitive bug reports into structured feature requirements and product user stories
Synthesize UAT findings, regression data and user friction into actionable requirements
Partner with the Product Owner and Engineering Leads to define and prioritize roadmap items
Communicate release readiness, quality trends and roadmap proposals to leadership and executive stakeholders

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree plus several years of industry experience, or equivalent practical experience in documentation tooling, QA or product support
Hands-on familiarity with structured XML authoring formats such as DocBook or DITA
Experience with automated document publishing and rendering toolchains
Proven experience executing User Acceptance Testing, regression testing or quality verification across integration, staging and production environments
Proficiency with software development workflows, Jira issue tracking and agile collaboration environments
Familiarity with AI tools, agentic workflows or automation scripts used to accelerate testing and triage
Experience with version control systems Git and Perforce and with command-line interfaces
Ability to communicate effectively with software developers, hardware engineers, engineering managers and leadership
Systematic problem-solving, attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership over quality gates and user experience
Experience moving from technical writing, documentation tooling or QA into product ownership, business analysis or product advocacy (preferred)
Experience generating, tracking and presenting test coverage metrics, regression statistics and release dashboards (preferred)
Experience collaborating within globally distributed, multi-disciplinary engineering organizations (preferred)
Comfort navigating IP-sensitive, secure development and hardware specification environments (preferred)