Senior Manager, Hardware Development Engineering

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Process Development is part of the Wafer Wet Process Development, the engineering manager will be responsible to lead the CMP process development team to develop new CMP process and technology, enable and accelerate technology deployment into head products to meet HDD requirements through product life cycle.

• Lead a group of talented process development engineers and technicians responsible for CMP new process development.
• Guide and prioritize CMP development team on long term and short term projects, to meet new product launch requirement and schedule.
• Supervise team to develop or evaluate new CMP processing technology, methodology, consumables or advance tooling to meet new product needs and manufacturability.
• Work with cross functional teams including design, integration, and other development process modules on designs incorporating CMP or resolving any integration issue.
• Guide team on trouble-shoot the related issues in development line, conduct defect analyses, root cause analyses, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Be responsible for team on new process to manufacturing engineering (ME) transferring, support ME team on necessary process implementing and manufacturing ramping.

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• PhD degree in physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, or a related engineering field.
• At least 5 year of knowledge / working experience on CMP process development, and post cleaning processes.
• Understanding other process techniques, such as photolithography, dry or wet etching, electroplating, or thin film deposition processes,
• Experience in wafer-level magnetic recording head fabrication and integration are desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Able to work on the resolution of any issue and to interact with various interdepartmental team and support organizations.
• Demonstrated leadership and project driving skills, capable of managing team and projects with set milestones and timeline, and ability to execute. 
• Experience with statistical analysis tools, such as JMP, is a plus.

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate 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 sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in th