Early Career Talent - Servo Control Engineer
About The Position
Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Responsible for optimizing the high performance and robust positioning controller, and real-time servo firmware development for enterprise-class hard disk drives. Architect a robust servo system, compensating for environmental variables such as vibration, shock, supply voltage and temperature. Research, design, develop and maintain tools and equipment related to characterization and qualifying robust servo design. Provide failure analysis support for integration teams, manufacturing, and reliability testing. Collaborate with other teams to engineer design improvements that enhance robustness, minimize failures and optimize performance in all usage conditions Evaluate feasibility of advanced technologies and their interaction with servo subsystems through simulation and prototyping. This role is part of WD's early career development program. WD's early career development program is ideal for individuals at the early stages of their professional career. Participants receive foundational training through structured onboarding, mentorship, and a curated development curriculum. The responsibilities of this role are typically aligned with candidates who have approximately 0–2+ years of relevant professional experience, though candidates of all experience levels are encouraged to apply.
Requirements
- Current MS/PhD EE or ME Graduating March 26 - May 26
- Must have experience with servo-controller design for mechanical dynamic system; familiarity with design tradeoffs for feedback and feedforward solutions
- Must have experience with Matlab and experience in coding C/C++
- Demonstrated strong problem solving and initiative
- Excellent global communication skills
- Good organizational skills
Responsibilities
- optimizing the high performance and robust positioning controller, and real-time servo firmware development for enterprise-class hard disk drives
- Architect a robust servo system, compensating for environmental variables such as vibration, shock, supply voltage and temperature
- Research, design, develop and maintain tools and equipment related to characterization and qualifying robust servo design
- Provide failure analysis support for integration teams, manufacturing, and reliability testing
- Collaborate with other teams to engineer design improvements that enhance robustness, minimize failures and optimize performance in all usage conditions
- Evaluate feasibility of advanced technologies and their interaction with servo subsystems through simulation and prototyping
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
