Western Digital · 22 hours ago
Staff HDD Embedded System Engineer
Irvine, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expWestern Digital is a leading company in data storage solutions, committed to powering global innovation. The Staff HDD Embedded System Engineer will provide electronics support to firmware, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams for all HDD products, ensuring the smooth integration and performance of hardware and firmware.
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Responsibilities
Provide firmware support. Collaborate with firmware development teams to ensure new hardware features are utilized completely and correctly. Work with the FW and HW design team to quickly resolve any electronic issues to ensure product schedules are not gated - includes working with the FW team to come up with a Firmware solution for hardware use cases
Provide Manufacturing Support. Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure electronic issues are quickly resolved to not impact yield, quality, or shipments to customers. Develop tools and data mining strategies to monitor and assess failure trends in manufacturing
Provide Customer Support. Collaborate with FAE and WWFA teams to ensure issues do not delay qualification or impact customer satisfaction. Data mining of customer data for failure trends
Staff Embedded System Engineers have broad system level knowledge and some subject matter expertise in one or more areas of the design. They should be aware of technical advances within their area of specialization and may contribute to setting the direction necessary for the group to continuously improve its ability to solve problems and provide support
Staff Embedded System Engineers should utilize methodical problem-solving processes. They are proficient in using debug tools and techniques. They should own and maintain the tools utilized in their area of expertise. They should be able to independently solve complex problems in their area of expertise
Staff Engineers should meet their goals with some direction and supervision. They should proactively provide status with clear and concise summaries of complex problems
Qualification
Required
BS with 5+ years' experience
Some system level knowledge of HDD with understanding of both firmware and hardware
Familiarity with the HDD lab debug environment
Familiarity with HDD Failure modes to triage a failure and the tools to isolate the failure to a particular design area: Blink Codes, error logs (ShowStop/Debug Snapshots), Bus Traces, firmware Event Trace Logging (ETL)
Understanding of high speed signal guidelines for printed circuit boards and ability to identify potential signal integrity problems when reviewing schematics
Proficient in Hardware debug using oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzers, bus analyzers, hardware embedded trace, test muxes, GHS Probe, and Serial Debugger
Familiarity with C++ code. Ability to modify code for the design-of-experiments
Ability to develop and maintain test scripts written in TCL and Python
Strong Problem Solving including practical knowledge of A3 and 8D methodologies
Strong communication. Especially the ability to collaborate across engineering organizations, geographies, and cultures. Also, the ability to provide clear and concise summaries of complex problems
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
Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
Company
Western Digital
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
10001+ employees
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