Staff Embedded System Engineer

Western Digital•Irvine, CA

11h•Onsite

About The Position

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible. Western Digital is a company of problem solvers, enabling extraordinary things with technology, from putting a man on the moon to powering competitive gaming platforms, making cities safer, cars smarter, and data centers for major companies and public clouds. They support storage infrastructure for streaming, social media, online shopping, and flash memory cards. The company offers an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices, and platforms for business and consumers under the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, and WD® brands. The Staff Embedded System Engineer position provides electronics support to firmware, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams for all HDD products. This includes collaborating with firmware development teams to utilize new hardware features and resolve electronic issues, working with manufacturing teams to resolve electronic issues quickly, developing tools and data mining strategies for failure trends, and collaborating with FAE and WWFA teams to ensure customer satisfaction and data mining customer data for failure trends. Staff Embedded System Engineers possess broad system-level knowledge and subject matter expertise in one or more design areas, staying aware of technical advances. They utilize methodical problem-solving processes, are proficient in debug tools and techniques, own and maintain tools in their area of expertise, and can independently solve complex problems. They meet goals with some direction and supervision and proactively provide clear and concise status updates on 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
Ability to collaborate across engineering organizations, geographies, and cultures
Ability to provide clear and concise summaries of complex problems

Responsibilities

Provide electronics support to firmware, manufacturing, and customer facing teams for all HDD products
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
Work 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
Own and maintain the tools utilized in their area of expertise
Independently solve complex problems in their area of expertise
Proactively provide status with clear and concise summaries of complex problems

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
Eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”)
May be eligible to participate in 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, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards