Xona develops satellite navigation services delivering positioning, navigation, and timing data via a Low Earth Orbit network. Backed by NGP Capital.
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 is a cross-functional role that touches every part of how we build, test, launch, and operate spacecraft. Engineering review packages are delivered on schedule with minimal revision cycles
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.
With Pulsar – the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.
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 is a cross-functional role that touches every part of how we build, test, launch, and operate spacecraft.
Engineering review packages are delivered on schedule with minimal revision cycles
Launch documentation is complete, tracked, and delivered on schedule
New team members can readily find relevant documentation
Documentation standards you help establish scale as the team grows
Engineering Documentation Support engineering teams across bus, payload, Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC), Flight Software (FSW), and subsystems in producing and maintaining...
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