Western Digital
Data Storage
SeniorEngineerEmbeddedSystemEngineer
“Senior Engineer Embedded System Engineer at Western Digital. Skills: Embedded System Engineering, Electronics support for HDD products, Firmware support, Manufacturing support, Customer support, Hardware debug, System level knowledge of HDD. Provide electronics support to firmware, manufacturing, and customer facing teams for all HDD products. Provide firmware support”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure new hardware features are utilized completely and correctly; Quickly resolve any electronic issues to ensure product schedules are not gated; Ensure electronic issues are quickly resolved to not impact yield, quality, or shipments to customers; Ensure issues do not delay qualification or impact customer satisfaction
Industry & Context.
Methodical problem-solving processes; Independently solve complex problems; Problem Solving including practical knowledge of A3 and 8D methodologies
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, Problem Solving including practical knowledge of A3 and 8D methodologies, communication
What You'll Do.
Provide electronics support to firmware
and customer facing teams for all HDD products
Provide firmware support
Collaborate with firmware development teams to ensure new hardware features are utilized completely and correctly
Work with FW and HW design team to quickly resolve any electronic issues to ensure product schedules are not gated
Come up with a Firmware solution for hardware use cases
Provide Manufacturing Support
Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure electronic issues are quickly resolved to not impact yield
or shipments to customers
Develop tools and data mining strategies to monitor and assess failure trends in manufacturing
Provide Customer Support
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
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with firmware development teams; Work with the FW and HW design team; Collaborate with manufacturing teams; Collaborate with FAE and WWFA teams; Collaborate across engineering organizations, geographies, and cultures
Communication Scope
Ability to provide clear and concise summaries of complex problems
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