Engineer Embedded System Engineering

Western Digital•Irvine, CA

About The Position

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy. As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in. We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide. This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today. We’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level. Join us and let’s shape the future of data. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Embedded System Engineer to provide electronics support to firmware, manufacturing, and customer facing teams for all HDD products: Provide firmware support. Collaborate with firmware development teams to ensure new hardware features are utilized completely and correctly. Work with the FW and HW design team to quickly resolve any electronic issues to ensure product schedules are not gated - includes working with the FW team to come up with a Firmware solution for hardware use cases. Provide Manufacturing Support. Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure electronic issues are quickly resolved to not impact yield, quality, or shipments to customers. Develop tools and data mining strategies to monitor and assess failure trends in manufacturing. Provide Customer Support. Collaborate with FAE and WWFA teams to ensure issues do not delay qualification or impact customer satisfaction. Data mining of customer data for failure trends. Embedded System Engineers have broad system level knowledge and some subject matter expertise in one or more areas of the design. They should be aware of technical advances within their area of specialization and may contribute to setting the direction necessary for the group to continuously improve its ability to solve problems and provide support. Embedded System Engineers should utilize methodical problem-solving processes. They are proficient in using debug tools and techniques. They should own and maintain the tools utilized in their area of expertise. They should be able to independently solve complex problems in their area of expertise. Engineers should meet their goals with some direction and supervision. They should proactively provide status with clear and concise summaries of complex problems.

Requirements

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Experience with failure modes to triage system failures, and use of tools to isolate failure(s) of a particular design area: Blink Codes, error logs (ShowStop/Debug Snapshots), Bus Traces, firmware Event Trace Logging (ETL), debug PCBA design
Experience with high speed signal guidelines of printed circuit boards and ability to identify potential signal integrity problems when reviewing schematics
Proficient in Hardware debug using oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzers, bus analyzers, hardware embedded trace, test muxes, GHS Probe, and Serial Debugger.
System level knowledge of HDD with understanding of both firmware and hardware.
Experience programming using C++ code.
Ability to modify code for design-of-experiments.
Ability to develop and maintain test scripts written in TCL and Python.
Strong Problem Solving including practical knowledge of A3 and 8D methodologies.
Strong communication. Especially the ability to collaborate across engineering organizations, geographies, and cultures. Also, the ability to provide clear and concise summaries of complex problems.

Responsibilities

Provide firmware support.
Collaborate with firmware development teams to ensure new hardware features are utilized completely and correctly.
Work with the FW and HW design team to quickly resolve any electronic issues to ensure product schedules are not gated - includes working with the FW team to come up with a Firmware solution for hardware use cases.
Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure electronic issues are quickly resolved to not impact yield, quality, or shipments to customers.
Develop tools and data mining strategies to monitor and assess failure trends in manufacturing.
Collaborate with FAE and WWFA teams to ensure issues do not delay qualification or impact customer satisfaction.
Data mining of customer data for failure trends.
Utilize methodical problem-solving processes.
Be proficient in using debug tools and techniques.
Own and maintain the tools utilized in their area of expertise.
Independently solve complex problems in their area of expertise.
Meet their goals with some direction and supervision.
Proactively provide status with clear and concise summaries of complex problems.

Benefits

medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
the WD Savings 401(k) Plan
paid vacation time
paid sick leave
bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”)
annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires