Western Digital
Mechanical Simulation Engineer
San Jose, CA, United States · Mid
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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.
- WD's early career development program is ideal for individuals at the early stages of their professional career.
Responsibilities
- Perform correlation experiments to validate simulation results.
- Partner with mechanical and servo design engineers to optimized designs and recommend novel solutions to achieve demanding product requirements.
- Working with internal manufacturing teams, perform various analysis to ensure robust, high volume manufacturing tooling and processes.
- Proficient using mechanical analysis & design tools (e.g. ANSYS, Hyperworks, Matlab, SolidWorks).
Requirements
- Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time.
Nice to have
- Ideal candidate will have strong academic credentials combined with relevant work experience performing finite element analysis of complex structures and systems.
Skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment.
- Our pay transparency policy is available here.
- WD thrives on the power and potential of diversity.
- Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@wdc.com to advise us of your accommodation request.
- Compensation & Benefits Details
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
- Working knowledge of machine learning a plus.
- 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
- As part of a cross functional team, you will be working within a broad collection of engineering disciplines all focused on delivering exceptional products.
- This role is part of WD's early career development program.
- As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within.
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