Staff Process Engineer, Thin Film

Company Description
At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we've been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital, WD, WD_BLACK Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world's biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today's exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description
Provide engineering support to the thin film deposition processes in manufacture lines in order to meet manufacturing objectives with high quality, high productive and low cost products, as well as support the development of future generation products.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead thin-film deposition manufacture process team, to sustain the production line, monitor processes and equipment to ensure minimal deviations, meeting quality and quantity specifications.
• Develop and optimize process control methods and procedures to guarantee the quality, and prevent damage excursion.
• Improve processes in sigma, cycle time, throughput, defects, and cost of ownership.
• Performing wafer failure analysis, troubleshooting, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborate with cross-function team on the projects to improve overall product yield and element yield.
• Collaborate with integration, research and development plus other modules on new products development and transfer into production lines.
• Evaluate novel equipment to meet process requirement in future generation products
• Driving project planning, execution, summary, presentation, and delivery on time.
• Set up and improve automation systems, and working instruction documents. Provide the training instruction to the operators.
• Working with Characterization, Reliability and Failure Analysis teams to develop test methodologies, understand failure modes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Working with the Program, Modeling Process and Characterization teams to understand product requirements, defining development targets and plans.

Qualifications
Education, Certifications, and/or Licenses and Experience (Minimum Requirements)

• Academic background in Material Science, Physics, Chemistry, or related engineering fields
• Ph.D 1-2 year or MS with 4+ year of experience in wafer fab processes. Experience in thin film magnetic head is a plus.

Knowledge/Skills/ Abilities

• Familiar with thin film deposition processes (PVD, CVD, IBD, etc), and equipment.
• Solid background on correlation of process and equipment hardware
• Deep understanding of material characterization techniques. Knowledge of Magnetic material process and characterization is a plus.
• Knowledge of DOE and data analysis using JMP
• Understanding of SPC.
• Good trouble shooting and problem solving skill.
• Leadership and communication skill, and good team player.
• Being self-motivation, and good project management skill

Additional Information
Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership 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 "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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. Please contact us at to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be (3 months from posting), 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.

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