Senior Technical Author (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid role with two set days per week in the Cambridge office, United Kingdom.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-driven cybersecurity products that detect and respond to novel, real-time cyber threats.

What you will do

• Research, write, maintain, and review technical documentation across products, audiences, and technical domains.
• Improve content quality, consistency, usability, structure, navigation, and information architecture.
• Apply technical communication standards and best practices to documentation.
• Provide technical communication guidance and help raise documentation standards across the team.
• Develop technical and developer-focused documentation, including API and integration content.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and subject matter experts to keep documentation accurate and aligned with product development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for software, hardware, or other complex technical products.
• Experience assessing and reviewing documentation across a large, established content set.
• Track record of raising quality standards across content produced by a team of authors.
• Experience mentoring and developing less experienced authors as an established part of the role.
• Experience introducing authoring practices or approaches from previous teams or organisations to improve documentation quality and effectiveness.
• Strong understanding of technical communication principles, information architecture, and user-centred content design.
• Hands-on experience with modern authoring toolchains, including Markdown or HTML, documentation-as-code, and version control tools such as Git.
• Experience creating documentation for APIs or other developer-facing technologies.
• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts to engineers and less technical end users.

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to documentation standards, style guides, or authoring frameworks.
• Experience leading structured content audits and converting findings into documentation improvements.
• Experience with API documentation technologies and tooling, including REST APIs, SDKs, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
• Exposure to cybersecurity concepts, products, or technical domains.
• Experience managing a small team of technical authors or equivalent experience leading and developing others.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a hybrid Cambridge-based role.
• Primarily a senior individual contributor position, with potential to lead a small team as the role evolves.
• Support for skills development, learning, and opportunities to grow beyond the role’s current scope.
• Culture centred on ownership, collaboration, high standards, urgency, continuous learning, integrity, and accountability.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities.