Tesla Inc. is seeking a Technical Editor to join our team in Palo Alto, CA. You will be the conduit between a rapidly growing global service team and the engineering teams who diagnose and design our products. By using in-house tools, collaborating with engineers from design, service, new product introduction, and working collaboratively with diagnostics, training, technical operations, you will directly contribute to Tesla’s ability to service and maintain a rapidly growing fleet of critical products – products like Megapack, Powerpack, Supercharger, and Solar Roof, each of which plays a critical role in our path to a sustainable future. Our Technical Editors:

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  Partner with engineering teams to create and update diagnostic information and procedures contained in the diagnostics database for use by non-engineers.
• Collaborate with various engineering and quality teams to gather technical information.
• Understand technical problems and communicate them effectively to non-technical people.
• Validate information for accuracy and use a routing and review process for document approval.
• Edit content according to a style guide and enforce organization standards.
• Improve editorial and visual standards for documentation and recommend new designs, layouts, and formatting as needed.
• Manage tasks and information flow using collaboration software (such as JIRA, SharePoint, and custom databases).

Tesla is a fast-paced working environment that celebrates highly motivated individuals. We believe in working fast, learning from our failures, and making it better next time. Our team is full of people with deep technical understanding, excellent communication skills, and ruthless time management . If you have a love of learning something new every day and can clearly communicate what you learn to audiences with various levels of technical knowledge, then you will fit right in. The work that you do will accelerate us all along the path to a sustainable future.

Desired Skills

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  Bachelors in English, Rhetoric and Composition, Technical / Professional Writing, Journalism, Communications, or relevant working experience.
• 1-3 years working experience in related field.

• Ability to edit and create documentation that is accurate, complete, clear, specific, and as concise as possible.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to peers, people from different parts of the organization, and non-technical people.
• Can extract and comprehend system operation from typical engineering documentation from both a software and mechanical perspective (e.g. schematics and subsystem specification documents).
• High level of interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong capacity for both logical and creative thinking.
• Must be organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task and evaluate priorities.
• Self-directed and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience with HTML, XML, DITA, Markdown, Git, SQL, and/or Python is a plus.