Servo Control Engineer

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

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. The Servo Control Engineer is responsible for optimizing the high performance and robust positioning controller, and real-time servo firmware development for enterprise-class hard disk drives. This includes architecting a robust servo system that compensates for environmental variables such as vibration, shock, supply voltage, and temperature. The role also involves researching, designing, developing, and maintaining tools and equipment related to characterization and qualifying robust servo design. Additionally, the engineer will provide failure analysis support for integration teams, manufacturing, and reliability testing, and collaborate with other teams to engineer design improvements that enhance robustness, minimize failures, and optimize performance in all usage conditions. Evaluating the feasibility of advanced technologies and their interaction with servo subsystems through simulation and prototyping is also a key aspect of this position.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a MS or PhD in EE or ME
• 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.
• Architecting 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.

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
• WD Savings 401(k) Plan

What This Job Offers

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