Principal Test Engineer

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, and SanDisk 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

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Using sound test engineering principles, knowledge of the product and technology to ensure the product meets functional and customer requirements and is ready to ship on schedule
• Owns product validation regarding test plan definition, test plan execution, and primary lead in failure analysis
• Primary lead in performing performance characterization of product and tracking down any observed anomalies
• Contributes to overall test schedule development
• Writes the test plans for new product features, generates test matrices, test reports, and other relevant test documentation that is required for flawless program execution
• Defines new tests based on customer feedback and defect fixes
• Executes existing/regression test cases for the project during the entire product development cycle
• Works closely with the other system test, hardware, ASIC and firmware engineers to improve test methodology and develop new tests and new strategies
• Configures customer hardware and software systems; troubleshoot problems to get to root cause
• Maintains customer and test equipment to current revision

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

MUST POSSESS THE FOLLOWING

• Bachelors degree Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, other related Engineering discipline.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in Storage and Networking
• Programming experience utilizing Python, or other scripting languages
•  Networking protocols
• Storage NVME

SKILLS - REQUIRED

• Working Knowledge in Linux
• Experience in Automation
• Experience with the below: 
• Secure Boot
• Secure Firmware Download
• Secure Debug
• Authentication
• Attestation
• Data in Flight Encryption
• IPsec, in Transport and Tunnel mode
• Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
• Asymmetric (Public-Private key) Cryptography
• Symmetric Cryptography (i.e. AES-GCM)
• Quantum-safe (Post-Quantum) Cryptography
• Bonus
  • Secure development process
  • Penetration testing experience

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 [email protected] 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 10/21/ 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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Business Function: Test EngineeringWork Location: Roseville California Office--LOC_WDT_USCA12

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