Principal Engineer Reader Development Test and Characterization

9 hours ago

San Jose, California, United States Western Digital Full time
Job Description

Western Digital is seeking a highly skilled test and device characterization engineer to join our Advanced Reader Development engineering team in San Jose, CA.

The successful candidate will be part of a growing team developing Western Digital's next generation of readback sensors for hard disk applications.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collect, process, and analyze electrical data from spintronic sensors
  • Responsible for wafer and device level testing of spintronic sensors – including day-to-day lab and data management
  • Work closely with design and modeling groups to predict and explain results
  • Bring up new laboratory for device-level magnetic testing: Specifying laboratory test equipment and writing test/analysis code
  • Working with integration engineers to conduct failure analysis utilizing data from materials analysis as well as electrical test
  • Keep up-to-date on recent advances in spintronics, magnetic materials, and devices; identify new technologies and advances in physics that would benefit WD's read head development
Qualifications:
  • MS+ 4 years of experience with a degree in Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • Prior experience in device test and characterization in disk drives, magnetic memory, semiconductor, optoelectronics, or solid-state physics
  • Hands-on experience with test equipment: Lock-in amplifiers, current sources, wafer probers, etc.
  • Prior experience in test equipment integration and coding using Labview, LabWindows, Matlab, or similar
  • Demonstrated ability to summarize complex data in clear and concise reports
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Ph.D. degree preferred
  • Background in magnetic devices, spintronics, or MRAM
  • Device fabrication or process integration experience is a plus
Skills:
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Data analysis skills to manipulate and analyze large data sets with tools such as JMP, R, Python, or similar packages

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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 Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. 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.

We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect, and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 1/1/2025, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline.

If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

Compensation & Benefits Details

An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution, and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.

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.

This range may be modified in the future.

You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, 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.

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 Western Digital's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.

No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.

The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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