Job Description

Join our dynamic and collaborative team to help with WD failure analysis in support of requests from our customers teams. As Engineer in Failure Analysis Team, you will be performing Electrical FA measurements and managing Failure Analysis activities spanning across multiple hard disk drives labs. You will collaborate with worldwide FA teams and team. You will review failure analysis reports from other labs. You will work with other labs members 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 Electrical FA reports and FA summaries with key findings from the labs. These summaries are used to communicate key lab data and causes of failure to the customers, field application engineers, quality managers, manufacturing, or development teams. You will have multiple opportunities to help improve FA processes and tools based on learnings from FA work. You will be able to complete projects to help automate and optimize FA processes and improve turn-around time of FA.

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

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

The Engineer in Failure Analysis will:

• Perform Electrical FA and manage overall FA activities, priorities and identifying causes of failures and related drive problems on customer drives.
• Collaborate closely with other FA lab analysts.
• Summarize Electrical FA and overall FA results based on Electrical tests and key labs findings and cause of failure.
• Proactively engage with subject matter experts in Customer Technical Support and Customer Quality Management, PCBA, Firmware, Reliability, Data Analytics, Factory FA and Quality teams on customer issues.
• Follow department/work group processes.
• Develop, improve, and document failure analysis procedures, processes, and requirements.
• Participate in selected Program/Product/Customer issue resolution meetings and act as an integral part of the issue resolution team.
• 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, failure modes, develop associated failure analysis tools, processes, and documentation.
• Define and work on tool improvements related to Electrical FA.

You will effectively communicate results and status with management and team members and participate in resolving product and customer issues by providing electrical analysis and meaningful insights.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field with graduation date between December 2024-June 2025
• Knowledge and experience with Data Analytics, Python, C++, and/or SQL
• Effective at multi-tasking, organization and time management
• Self-motivated
• Demonstrates patience, confidence, and composure

Preferred:

• Coursework or experience in Machine Learning is preferred
• Prior industry experience 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 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 "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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 the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@wdc.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 2/28/2025, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.