Technologist, Reliability Engineering

Western Digital Corp•Rochester, MN

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About The Position

Advanced Reliability Engineering's (ARE) key mission is an end-to-end reliability assurance process that applies industry-leading methods in modeling, testing and analysis. We lay out the Quality policies that ensure success at our customers during qualification and through the Product Life Cycle. We are looking for an experienced HDD engineer with data analytics and engineering capability, with a strong interest in reliability assurance method development, and who is a good culture fit for ARE.

Requirements

Masters or Ph.D. degree in engineering, computer science/engineering or related field
10+ years technical hands-on experience in HDD - either in f/w or development engineering
Basic knowledge of reliability principles and statistics
Significant experience with HDD f/w, logs and analytics
Data engineering and analytics capability needed
A healthy desire to challenge the status quo and provide innovative alternatives. This also includes scrutiny of input data quality to our analysis and models
Demonstrated ability to innovate and solve difficult non-routine technical challenges
Demonstrated project management skills from vision to plan to execution
Track record of leading and achieving results in cross-functional and cross-site teams
Highly effective oral and written communication skills, especially in presentations to other functions, customers and executive management

Responsibilities

Develop new and creative methods to speed up Time to Qual, while ensuring Reliability performance meets expectations
Develop AI applications for Drift detection in Reliability metrics at drive and component level
Develop an ongoing feedback loop based on field data, feedback, logs, to propagate relevant and required changes to internal tests
Develop new applications to enhance the end-to-end Reliability process, utilizing a new AI platform

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 Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan