Technical Writer

Alembic•San Francisco, CA

3d•$162,000 - $182,000•Onsite

About The Position

Alembic is hiring a Technical Writer to create a verified, connected knowledge base for the company’s scientific and technical work. The role will organize research notes, testing and verification programs, and technical analyses produced by the company’s founder and CEO and Chief Science Officer, establishing which documents are canonical, superseded, or missing. The writer will build and maintain the knowledge base in Google Workspace, including an AI layer using Gemini and NotebookLM grounded in curated sources. The Technical Writer will run internal peer review for external technical content and LLM-assisted drafts, ensure claims are traceable to sources, and route open questions to the relevant scientists. The role will also assess external research, launch technical publishing such as blog posts, white papers, and articles, and extend the knowledge base into customer-facing documentation and training materials. This is an onsite role in San Francisco. It reports to the Chief Science Officer and works day to day with the CEO, as well as closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success. Success is measured by making company knowledge easier to find and trust through a smaller set of canonical, sourced, and current documents.

Requirements

At least 4 years of professional experience writing or editing technical or scientific material.
Quantitative literacy, including the ability to read machine learning, statistics, or physics papers, explain their assumptions, and identify their weaknesses.
Experience building a knowledge base, wiki, or documentation system from scattered material, including taxonomy, naming, and maintenance.
Fluency with LLM tools and discipline in verifying their claims against sources.
Ability to question founders or scientists when claims are unsupported while keeping discussions productive.
Experience with editorial or peer-review processes, such as in a journal, research organization, medical or regulatory writing, or a documentation team with formal review.
Published technical writing, such as white papers, technical blog posts, or long-form articles.
Comfort with diagrams, process flows, Markdown, and docs-as-code tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience writing or editing in AI, data, research, or another field where accuracy is checked.
Python or scripting experience.
Familiarity with causal inference, experimentation, or marketing measurement.

Responsibilities

Inventory existing research and technical documents, map their relationships, and determine what is canonical, superseded, or missing.
Build and maintain Alembic’s internal knowledge base in Google Workspace, including an AI layer using Gemini and NotebookLM grounded in curated sources and returning cited answers.
Run internal peer review for external technical content and LLM-assisted drafts by tracing claims to sources, flagging unsupported claims, and routing questions to the appropriate scientist.
Assess external research by summarizing papers’ claims, known critiques, open debates, and how Alembic’s position holds up against them.
Launch and run technical publishing, including blog posts, white papers, and articles developed from existing material and cleared through review.
Extend the knowledge base into customer-facing documentation and training materials in collaboration with Product and Customer Success.