New College Graduate, Electrical Failure Analysis Engineering

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Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Join our dynamic and collaborative team to help with WD failure analysis in support of requests from our customers teams. As an Engineer on our Failure Analysis Team, you will be performing and managing Electrical Failure Analysis in our Electrical lab. Collaborating with local and worldwide FA teams, you will review failure analysis reports from labs and work with other labs and subject matter experts to decide on best course of action for identifying underlying causes of failures and drive problems. Additionally, you will be in charge of running Electrical FA tests in the lab and summarizing results and key findings, which are used to communicate key lab data to other labs, FA leads, field application engineers, quality managers and manufacturing teams.

You will have multiple opportunities to help improve FA processes and tools based on learnings from FA work. With your set of Electrical FA skills, you will be able to optimize FA processes and meet turn-around time of FA. Over time, you will gain further expertise allowing you to be one of a few HDD EFA experts in the world!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

This position requires full time onsite work in the electrical lab in our San Jose campus:

• Perform and manage Electrical FA tests in the lab and identify key findings and provide Electrical FA analysis conclusions for customer returned drives.
• Collaborate closely with other FA lab analysts.
• Summarize Electrical FA results based on key lab findings.
• Pro-actively engage with subject matter experts in PCBA, Firmware, FA Tools, Customer Technical Support and Customer Quality Managers, Factory FA and Quality teams on customer and qualification issues.
• Follow department/work group processes.
• Develop, improve, and document failure analysis procedures, processes, and requirements.
• Participate in selected customer issue resolution meetings.
• Effectively present information, ideas, and your perspective to peers, team members and managers.
• Create and meet schedules for high priority process improvements.
• Brainstorm, be open to inputs and recommend team improvements and team process improvements.
• Interact with Development teams to understand new technology, develop associated failure analysis tools, processes, and documentation.
• Define and work on tool improvements related to FA.
• Learn about product failures from development teams.

You will effectively communicate results and status with management and team members and participate in resolving product and customer issues by providing meaningful insights.

REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related engineering field with a graduation date before July 2025. 
• Right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case to employ you at any point in the future required (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)
• Candidates who will not require relocation to the San Jose, CA will be preferred

SKILLS

• Electrical testing experience
• Electrical failure analysis experience with enterprise or client hard drives highly desired
• Detailed knowledge of Hard Drives and knowledge of factory processes
• Knowledge and experience with automation, Python, C is a plus
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Demonstrates patience, confidence, and composure
• Proven leadership skills
• Effective at multi-tasking, organization and time management
• Self-motivated
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and teamworking skills
• Candidates must demonstrate relevant experience, interest and aptitude in both analytical and practical aspects of the above topics.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 7/30/2025, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.