Staff Engineer, Electrical Failure Analysis Engineering

Company Description

At Western Digital, we are on a mission to unlock the potential of data so people, companies and organizations everywhere can create what’s next. To fulfill our vision, we are always on the lookout for potential team members who share our passion for solving problems to empower others.

When you join Western Digital, you join a legacy more than 50 years in the making. Across our Western Digital®, SanDisk®, SanDisk® Professional, WD® and WD_BLACK™ brands, we have brought some of the most storied advancements in memory and data storage technology to market—and our best, most innovative work is yet to come.

From energizing gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Here’s how you can help.

Job Description

Join our dynamic and collaborative team to help with WD failure analysis in support of requests from our customers teams. As Staff Engineer in Failure Analysis Team, you will be performing and managing Electrical Failure Analysis. You will collaborate with local and worldwide FA teams. You will review failure analysis reports from labs and work with other labs and subject matter experts to decide on best course of action for identifying underlying causes of failures and drive problems. You will be in charge of running Electrical FA tests and summarizing results and key findings. These summaries are used to communicate key lab data to other labs, FA leads, field application engineers, quality managers and manufacturing teams. You will have multiple opportunities to help improve FA processes and tools based on learnings from FA work. With your set of Electrical FA skills, you will be able to optimize FA processes and meet turn-around time of FA.

Over time, you will gain further expertise allowing you to be one of few HDD EFA experts in the world!

*Responsibilities

The Staff Engineer in Electrical Failure Analysis will:

• Perform and manage Electrical FA tests and identify key findings and provide Electrical FA analysis conclusions for customer returned drives.
• Collaborate closely with other FA lab analysts.
• Summarize Electrical FA results based on key lab findings.
• Pro-actively engage with subject matter experts in PCBA, Firmware, FA Tools, Customer Technical Support and Customer Quality Managers, Factory FA and Quality teams on customer and qualification issues.
• Follow department/work group processes.
• Develop, improve, and document failure analysis procedures, processes, and requirements.
• Participate in selected customer issue resolution meetings.
• Effectively present information, ideas, and your perspective to peers, team members and managers.
• Create and meet schedules for high priority process improvements.
• Brainstorm, be open to inputs and recommend team improvements and team process improvements.
• Interact with Development teams to understand new technology, develop associated failure analysis tools, processes, and documentation.
• Define and work on tool improvements related to FA.
• Learn about product failures from development teams.
• Communicate results and status with management and team members and participate in resolving product and customer issues by providing meaningful insights.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or related field
• Hard disk drive Electrical FA experience
• Effective at multi-tasking, organization and time management
• Self-motivated
• Demonstrates patience, confidence, and composure
• Detailed knowledge of Hard Drives and knowledge of factory processes
• 3+ years of electrical failure analysis experience with enterprise or client hard drives highly desired

Preferred:

• Knowledge and experience with automation, Python, C++, and/or SQL is a plus.

Skills:

• Proven problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Leadership skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned se