Channel Development Sr. Staff Engineer

Seagate Technology•Longmont, CO

9d•Onsite

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. As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on innovation to advance Seagate’s recording subsystem technology.

Requirements

Communications channel expertise, including signal processing, information theory, modulation codes, error correction codes, equalization, and timing recovery.
Magnetic recording knowledge a plus (recording physics including head, media, preamp, and channel interactions)
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.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field (i.e. Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Computer Engineering, Materials, Physics, or Information Technology) and 12+ years of experience or master’s degree in the same and 8+ years’ experience or PhD and 5+ years’ experience or equivalent experience and education.

Nice To Haves

Queuing theory and/or AI expertise a plus.

Responsibilities

Design channel-enabled architectures and component technology bundles that provide disruptive drive capacity, performance, and reliability gains.
For the current physical recording channel, identify channel detection technologies that harvest opportunities relative to the theoretical capacity entitlement.
Understand the future migration of the physical recording channel and develop novel channel detection, optimization, and adaptation techniques that exploit the changing characteristics.
Work with channel vendors to specify and evaluate new channel technologies.
Develop time-efficient physics-informed methods for tuning the channel in the factory process to accommodate the sources of variation in the HAMR recording system.
Provide guidance to head, media, and drive teams on how to use the R/W channel for design feedback and screening.
Work as a hands-on practitioner to perform bench testing with drive mules to demonstrate the feasibility of new channel-enabled system technologies.
Create and use channel models that can be used with synthesized or real waveforms to demonstrate the feasibility of new channel-enabled system technologies.
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.