Reliability Integration and Failure Analysis Engineer
About The Position
WD is seeking a Drive Failure Analysis and Reliability Integration Engineer to join the Hyperscale HDD Development Team. The role focuses on identifying causes of HAMR and ePMR HDD failures through analysis of manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability test data. It combines hardware engineering, reliability, data analysis, and product development to provide findings that support next-generation storage products. This position is part of WD’s early career development program, which provides structured onboarding, mentorship, foundational training, and a curated development curriculum. Responsibilities are typically aligned with candidates with approximately 0–2+ years of relevant professional experience, though candidates at all experience levels are encouraged to apply.
Requirements
- Recently completed a BS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Must have the right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case now or at any point in the future.
- Academic, internship, project, or research experience involving data analysis, electronics testing, reliability, hardware, manufacturing, or technical problem solving.
- Familiarity with one or more programming or analysis tools such as MATLAB, TCL, Python, R, C, or C++.
- Strong organization, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to multitask, take direction, and collaborate effectively within a technical team.
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to electronics test equipment, data extraction, data visualization, statistics, hardware debugging, or manufacturing analytics.
- Interest in HDD, semiconductor, storage, reliability engineering, failure analysis, or product development.
- Internship, research, capstone, lab, or project experience requiring technical documentation and data-based recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Analyze failures from manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability testing to support root-cause determination.
- Partner with HDD Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer teams, and Reliability partners to define analysis plans and next steps.
- Use bench electrical failure analysis measurements, characterization data, and manufacturing data to determine likely failure causes.
- Document failure analysis data, summarize findings, and communicate conclusions to technical stakeholders.
- Apply programming and data analysis skills to improve reporting, trend analysis, and engineering efficiency.
- Support corrective action discussions that improve product reliability, quality, and recurrence prevention.
Benefits
- Paid vacation time
- Paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life, accident, and disability insurance
- Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program
- Supplemental life and AD&D insurance
- Legal plan
- Pet insurance
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit benefits
- Applause Program
- Employee stock purchase plan
- WD Savings 401(k) Plan
- Potential eligibility for bonus awards under the Short Term Incentive Plan or Sales Incentive Plan
- Potential eligibility for the annual Long-Term Incentive program, consisting of restricted stock units or cash equivalents
- Overtime pay for eligible non-exempt positions and possible shift differential pay, depending on assigned shift
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
