Senior Documentation Architect / Writer, RISC-V

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one the Fortune 100. The Linux Foundation has proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since inception. We’re growing at a phenomenal rate and we’re looking for top marketer’s to join our growing team.

This role is dedicated to RISC-V International, a stand alone open standards collaboration organization.

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. RISC-V International comprises more than 2,400 members building the first open, collaborative community of software and hardware innovators powering an open era of processor innovation. The RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and modular hardware, paving the way for the next 50 years of open computing design freedom and innovation.

RISC-V International, a non-profit organization controlled by its members, directs the future development and drives the adoption of the RISC-V ISA. Members of RISC-V International have access to and participate in the development of the RISC-V ISA specifications and related ecosystem.

To learn more about RISC-V, please visit: www.riscv.org

RISC-V International is looking for a Senior Documentation Architect/Writer to help us achieve the following goals: develop a strategy for organizing RISC-V documentation, enhance readability and usability of the content (including writing content), and work with the organization leadership to institutionalize best practices moving forward.

This position will work with the Technical steering committee, Committee chairs, Architecture review bodies, authors, RISC-V staff, and the CTO to achieve the aforementioned goals including:

• Audit current content
• Propose and get approval for an organizational strategy and develop an execution plan to organize the content
• Work with existing Doc Tools developer to complete AsciiDoc transition and HTML transition
• Develop policies, processes, and identify remedial work to establish robust TOCs, Indexes, Hyperlinks, and Glossaries
• Develop plan to address the lack of introduction sections (rationale, strategies, overviews) and connective prose to minimize readers having to guess that information with the goals of making readers more successful more quickly (ramp) and having the documents stand alone.
• Develop tagging strategy so that readers may choose what they want to read. E.g. manual, manual + non-normative text, manual +examples, etc.
• Help develop strategy and implementation for automatic inclusion of SAIL formal model into the specifications based on work being done by Cambridge.
• Work with the emerging developer experience effort to tie these projects together.
   

• Bachelor's degree in CS, or related field
• 10+ years of related Documentation writing experience in technology
• Working knowledge of Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with and building relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Working knowledge of the Linux software stack from boot to userspace
• Experience organizing documentation sets
• Experience in some markup language used for documentation development (e.g. Latex, AsciiDoc)

Preferred

• Advanced degree in CS / ECE / EE
• Proficient with AsciiDoc, Latex, GitHub, Google/MSFT Suites, and Atlassian tools

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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