By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. 

Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains.  CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

Candidate should have a foundation in writing technical documentation, briefings, and manuals and be comfortable interacting with software engineers, development teams, customers, and users. The technical writer should have the ability to design and layout graphical product overviews and related marketing material.

• Research, develop and write user focused and maintainer focused technical documentation and training materials for military and commercial systems. 
• Edit technical publications to meet CDRL requirements
• Learn and understand the technical design of the system well enough to be effective at transforming input from developers and engineers into written and graphical documents that are understandable by users and customers
• Lead and assist with developing briefings in PowerPoint that are suitable for presentation to high level government and corporate personnel
• Support and develop training materials for software centric IT systems 

• Bachelor of Science, with a concentration in Information Systems, Communications or Engineering preferred. Minimum 3 years of experience in technical writing.
• Customer focused with strong interpersonal skills 
• Ability to understand high level IT and software concepts
• Ability to communicate with development teams, engineers, technicians, training teams and customer personnel
• Ability to ask questions and listen to the answers
• Ability to conduct peer reviews of documentation and solicit and incorporate feedback
• Ability and drive to complete assignments on schedule
• Write using clear and concise language using proper English in a format understandable to the target audience (Users and Maintainers)
• Ability to create hardware or software documentation from start to finish, including manual formatting, indexing, creation of all text, illustrations, block diagrams, theory of operations, power point presentations, procedures, etc.
• Ability to create user-focused training materials and courseware
• Experience developing briefings in PowerPoint that are suitable for presentation to high level government and corporate personnel
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications to include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio

• Minimum 1 year experience using Jira and Confluence in an Agile environment.

Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U. S. Citizenship status with a Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance. Security Clearance requirements will be specified in the Government's Task Order.

CESI is committed to principles of inclusion and equal employment opportunity.  We foster a non-discriminatory, professional work environment for all our teams.  We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

Salary Range: Salary Minimum: $65,000, Salary Maximum: $75,000

The annual base salary provided is a guideline for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. When extending an offer, CESI also considers other variables such as (but not limited to) work experience, education, training, skill set, internal peer equity, clearance level, and market conditions. In addition, CESI provides an extensive selection of benefits and offerings to our employees.

CESI recognizes that our strength is our people. We support every employee as an individual to build strong teams across the enterprise.  Our benefit package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Wellness Program
• 401(k) Matching
• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, Military Leave, Bereavement and Jury Duty)