Reliability Integration and Failure Analysis Engineer

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

WD is seeking a Drive Failure Analysis and Reliability Integration Engineer to join the Hyperscale HDD Development Team. In this role, you will help identify causes of HAMR and ePMR HDD failures by analyzing manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability test data. You will work at the intersection of hardware engineering, reliability, data analysis, and product development to provide clear findings that support next-generation storage products. This role is part of WD's early career development program, 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

• Recently completed a BS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case in order to employ you 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 that required 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/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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level