Western Digital

Western Digital

Reliability Integration and Failure Analysis Engineer

San Jose, CA, United States · Internship

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
PythonMATLABCloud PlatformsData AnalysisData ScienceData VisualizationStatisticsElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignVoIPResearchCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoringMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • It's real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.
  • Join us and let's shape the future of data.
  • In this role, you will help identify causes of HAMR and ePMR HDD failures by analyzing manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability test data.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze failures from manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability testing to support root-cause determination.
  • Partner with HDD Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer teams, and Reliability partners to define analysis plans and next steps.
  • Document failure analysis data, summarize findings, and communicate conclusions to technical stakeholders.
  • Support corrective action discussions that improve product reliability, quality, and recurrence prevention.
  • Ability to multitask, take direction, and collaborate effectively within a technical team.

Requirements

  • Recently completed a BS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Familiarity with one or more programming or analysis tools such as MATLAB, TCL, Python, R, C, or C++.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
  • Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to electronics test equipment, data extraction, data visualization, statistics, hardware debugging, or manufacturing analytics.
  • Interest in HDD, semiconductor, storage, reliability engineering, failure analysis, or product development.
  • Internship, research, capstone, lab, or project experience that required technical documentation and data-based recommendations.
  • 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.
  • WD thrives on the power and potential of diversity.

Compensation

  • 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.
  • If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
  • You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD's Short Term Incentive Plan ("STI Plan") or the Sales Incentive Plan ("SIP") 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.
  • Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.

Benefits

  • 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 WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

Company info

  • This role is part of WD's early career development program.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case in order to employ you now or at any point in the future
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