Staff Electrical Failure Analysis Engineer

Summary

Join Western Digital's dynamic team as a Staff Engineer in Failure Analysis, contributing to WD failure analysis in support of customer requests. You will perform and manage electrical failure analysis, collaborating with global teams. Responsibilities include summarizing results, engaging with subject matter experts, improving FA processes, and presenting findings to various stakeholders. This role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field, hard disk drive electrical FA experience, and strong problem-solving and communication skills. The ideal candidate will also possess knowledge of automation and programming languages. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, retirement benefits, and more.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge and experience with automation, Python, C++, and/or SQL

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