Senior Software Engineer, Advanced Process Control

6 days ago


Fremont, California, United States Western Digital Full time
Job Description

Western Digital is seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer, Applications Engineering to join our team. As a key member of our Applications Engineering group, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining advanced process control systems for our HAMR program.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, with experience in developing and implementing run-to-run control and fault detection systems. You will work closely with our process engineering and equipment engineering teams to implement APC solutions and ensure successful production release.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain advanced process control systems for the HAMR program
  • Work with process engineering and equipment engineering teams to implement APC solutions
  • Manage APC projects toward successful production release and quantify benefits against baseline
  • Perform data analysis to determine and optimize FDC model for fault detection
  • Set up new control strategies, recipes for automation, and support process engineers to maintain existing control strategies
  • Design and develop new FDC models for scrap prevention, tool matching, preventative maintenance prediction, and enabling condition-based maintenance
  • Maintain run-to-run control and fault detection systems, monitor R2R controller and FD model performance, and initiate continuous improvement projects to maximize benefits of APC solutions
  • Troubleshoot to find root cause of system problems or software errors and assist in system recovery to production state in the event of system failure

Requirements:

  • MS/PhD degree in Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, or Mechanical), Applied Physics, Operations Research, or Statistics
  • Research or work experience with run-to-run control system and fault detection for high-tech manufacturing environment
  • Experience with statistical analysis and ML (e.g., JMP/MINITAB, MATLAB, Python) and ML/MVA software, run-to-run control, and fault detection software
  • Strong analytical and programming skills, statistical data analysis, DOE, regression analysis, and multivariate data analysis skills
  • Familiarity with processing technologies and equipment
  • Good understanding of Microsoft and Linux operating systems, SQL server, SQL queries, networking, SECS/GEM tool communication, and data acquisition (DAQ) technologies

Western Digital is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.



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