Optical Integration Sr. Staff Engineer

Seagate Technology • Fremont, CA

4d • $144,165 - $210,107

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. About the role - you will:
Use knowledge of optics physics and laser design to integrate new laser, channel wave guide, and NFT designs into HDDs.
Design calibration methods that accommodate manufacturing variation in light delivery in the drive.
Design tuning and optimization techniques that accommodate thermal, head-disk-spacing, and other sources of variation during the drive operating lifetime.
Work with the laser and head manufacturing team to specify and validate light delivery CTQs.
Serve as an optical and laser subject matter expert in cross-functional technology development teams.
Work to understand laser failure modes and design in-situ burn-in techniques, runtime failure detection features, and post-failure analysis techniques.
Design integrated-laser characterization tests that can be performed in the formatting and test process to improve both screening efficiency and design and manufacturing feedback.
Understand sources of fast-time-constant variation that can lead to areal density capability loss and specify design opportunities for areal density improvement.
Demonstrate and validate new early design samples using drive bench techniques and tools.
Contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, journal articles, and/or white papers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering and 12+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering and 8+ years of experience, or PHD and 5+ years of experience or equivalent education and experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in optics, optoelectronics, optical system design, laser sources, and integrated photonics.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• You are an innovative and self-motivated worker driven by curiosity.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You have a reputation for honesty, integrity, showing respect toward others, and effectively collaborating within a diverse team.
• You are a recognized subject matter expert that can provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of magnetic recording physics, including head, media, preamp, and channel interactions.

Responsibilities

• Use knowledge of optics physics and laser design to integrate new laser, channel wave guide, and NFT designs into HDDs.
• Design calibration methods that accommodate manufacturing variation in light delivery in the drive.
• Design tuning and optimization techniques that accommodate thermal, head-disk-spacing, and other sources of variation during the drive operating lifetime.
• Work with the laser and head manufacturing team to specify and validate light delivery CTQs.
• Serve as an optical and laser subject matter expert in cross-functional technology development teams.
• Work to understand laser failure modes and design in-situ burn-in techniques, runtime failure detection features, and post-failure analysis techniques.
• Design integrated-laser characterization tests that can be performed in the formatting and test process to improve both screening efficiency and design and manufacturing feedback.
• Understand sources of fast-time-constant variation that can lead to areal density capability loss and specify design opportunities for areal density improvement.
• Demonstrate and validate new early design samples using drive bench techniques and tools.
• Contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, journal articles, and/or white papers.

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, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees