QA Manager, Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Western Digital, a global technology leader, and contribute to the future of data storage. This role involves platform analysis, reliability assessment, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to develop flash storage products. You will be responsible for ensuring product reliability and quality, meeting company, customer, and governmental agency objectives. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field with 5+ years of experience in reliability or system engineering. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, retirement plans, and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor/Masters degree from Electrical/Electronics/Computer science preferred with 5+ years of experience in Reliability/Memory design/system engineering
• Experience in storage platform design/characterization
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Strong team player who can collaborate with colleagues

Responsibilities

• Understanding platform specifications and requirements
• Perform platform analysis and verification from product definition and planning through production and release
• Perform platform reliability prediction (MTBF), reliability growth assessment, and derating analysis
• Develop HASS/HALT methods and procedures for platforms products
• Evaluates, from a reliability standpoint, the materials, properties, and techniques used in production
• Determines reliability requirements of components and systems to achieve company, customer, and any governmental agency reliability objectives
• May propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability
• Understanding platform level behavior characterizations
• Participate in cross functional meetings such as with memory, firmware and product line teams to develop flash storage products
• Knowledge on the PLC process of a product
• Provides feedback on new system features for next generation platform developments
• Participate in RCA, 8D, process improvements
• Understanding of manufacturing operations and product/test engineering flow
• Making sure product is meeting the reliability and quality spec

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Semiconductor physics and Computer Architecture
• Knowledge on factory operations and Agile methodology
• Experience in platforms reliability and testing

Benefits

• 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
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents