Channel Development Senior Engineer (Early Career)
About The Position
The Advanced Recording Subsystem organization is responsible for integrating heads, media, preamps, and channels into hard disk drives. This includes defining recording subsystem architecture, specifying electrical and magnetic component requirements, designing system features, validating and integrating these components and features into new HDD products, and ensuring successful product ramps. In this role, you will use principles and techniques from information theory, error correction coding, and signal processing to advance the design of R/W channels for future HDD products. You will work with channel vendors to specify and evaluate new channel technologies. You will understand the top challenges of today's HAMR recording channel and identify opportunities for channel-enabled capacity, performance, reliability, and/or manufacturing time improvements. You will identify new channel technology opportunities specifically in the context of current and future host workloads, buffer characteristics, and firmware-driven data flows. You will serve as a channel subject matter expert in cross-functional technology development teams. You will demonstrate and validate new technologies in the drive on the bench. You will create and use channel models to explore the entitlement and feasibility of new concepts. You will contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, journal articles, and/or white papers. You will perform drive level HAMR recording experiments to clarify the paths to ADC growth.
Requirements
- Communications channel expertise, including signal processing, information theory, modulation codes, error correction codes, equalization, and timing recovery.
- Lab data acquisition and analysis instruments such as oscilloscopes, digitizers, GPUs, and spectrum analyzers.
- Experience in programming languages (Cuda, C++, Fortran, Python).
- Demonstrated team leadership and organization skills.
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice To Haves
- Queuing theory and/or AI expertise a plus.
- Magnetic recording knowledge a plus (recording physics including head, media, preamp, and channel interactions).
Responsibilities
- Use principles and techniques from information theory, error correction coding, and signal processing to advance the design of R/W channels for future HDD products.
- Work with channel vendors to specify and evaluate new channel technologies.
- Understand the top challenges of today's HAMR recording channel and identify opportunities for channel-enabled capacity, performance, reliability, and/or manufacturing time improvements.
- Identify new channel technology opportunities specifically in the context of current and future host workloads, buffer characteristics, and firmware-driven data flows.
- Serve as a channel subject matter expert in cross-functional technology development teams.
- Demonstrate and validate new technologies in the drive on the bench.
- Create and use channel models to explore the entitlement and feasibility of new concepts.
- Contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, journal articles, and/or white papers.
- Perform drive level HAMR recording experiments to clarify the paths to ADC growth.
Benefits
- eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
- medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchase plan
- health savings account
- dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts.
- paid time off
- 12 holidays
- flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy
- a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
