Technical Writer
Xona· Engineering
Burlingame, California$130k - $150kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
As our first Technical Writer, you’ll be embedded with the program team and support engineering, launch, and manufacturing across the company—from satellite development documentation to launch campaign packages to documentation standards for the production floor. This cross-functional role touches every part of how we build, test, launch, and operate spacecraft.
Responsibilities
- Engineering Documentation: Support engineering teams across bus, payload, Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC), Flight Software (FSW), and subsystems in producing and maintaining technical documents including Interface Control Documents (ICDs), test procedures, design specs, and review packages. You'll attend design reviews and work directly with engineers to extract technical details and translate them into clear, accurate, and actionable documentation.
Qualifications
- 4–7 years of technical writing experience in aerospace, defense, hardware manufacturing, or a similarly technical field
- Comfortable working directly with engineers to extract technical content and translate it into clean, usable documentation - ICDs, test procedures, design specs, and review packages
- Proven ability to build clear documentation templates and review technical content for accuracy, clarity, and consistency
- Self-directed and able to manage multiple documentation workstreams simultaneously in a fast-moving environment
- Comfortable asking questions when requirements are unclear - we value clarity over assumptions
Skills
Required:Technical writing in aerospace/defense/hardware manufacturingICDs, test procedures, design specs, review packagesTemplate creation and content review
Benefits
- - Offers Equity
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Xona
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Xona is the navigation infrastructure company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.
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