Senior Engineer, System Design Verification Engineering

Summary

Join Western Digital, a global technology leader, and contribute to the future of data storage. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for defining and tracking test plans, reviewing validation requirements, and monitoring test cycles. You will also characterize and optimize SSD performance, research innovative testing methods, and lead bug review meetings. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 2+ years of experience in consumer product validation, along with strong programming and analytical skills. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health insurance, retirement plans, and other perks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE, CS, EE, or related technical field and 2 years of experience in validation of consumer products
• Experience with computer systems, components, and various OS (Windows, Linux, DOS)
• Strong programming knowledge & debugging skills in python, C or C++
• Hands on experience in PCIe and NVMe spec with SSD qualification and test development
• Hands on experience in analyzing PCIe protocol trace
• Hands on experience in sideband signal testing like SMBUS, PERST#, ClkReq#, PLP
• Hands on experience is Power characterization for NVMe SSDs based on different OEM requirements
• Strong analytical problem solving skills to troubleshoot variety of system-level issues down to system/device HW/SW
• Ability to multi-task, work efficiently in a group, as an individual, and in a team environment
• Strong leadership and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Define and track test plans through product development cycles from EVT through customer qualification and MP
• Review NVMe SSD validation requirements from customer/architecture specs and influence future WD product design for debug and test
• Monitor regression and qualification test cycles, perform first level FA and triage of failures, prepare and present testing statistics, and work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to drive issues through closure
• Characterize and Optimize SSD’s for Performance and Power across Platforms
• Research and implement innovative ways to test/validate NVMe SSD’s
• Lead bug review meetings
• Act as gatekeeper for product release to customer
• Maintain communication with technical marketing and applications engineering teams to ensure testplans satisfy product and customer specifications and mirror customer tests/qual procedures
• Scope test tools and customer hardware requirements, ensuring the lab has appropriate customer systems and debug tools

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in storage device

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
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents