Western Digital

Data Storage

ServoControlEngineer

$115–154k San Jose, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Servo Control Engineer at Western Digital. Skills: Servo control, Firmware development, Matlab, C/C++. Optimizing high performance and robust positioning controller. Real-time servo firmware development for enterprise-class hard disk drives”

What You'll Achieve.

Optimize high performance and robust positioning controller; Enhance robustness; Minimize failures; Optimize performance

Industry & Context.

Data Storage
Problems you'll solve

Demonstrated problem solving; Problem solvers

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience with servo-controller design for mechanical dynamic familiarity with design tradeoffs for feedback and feedforward solutions, Experience with Matlab, Coding C/C++, Demonstrated problem solving and initiative, Excellent global communication skills, Good organizational skills

What You'll Do.

Optimizing high performance and robust positioning controller

Real-time servo firmware development for enterprise-class hard disk drives

Architecting a robust servo system

compensating for environmental variables such as vibration

supply voltage and temperature

developing and maintaining tools and equipment related to characterization and qualifying robust servo design

Providing failure analysis support for integration teams

and reliability testing

Collaborating with other teams to engineer design improvements that enhance robustness

minimize failures and optimize performance in all usage conditions

Evaluating feasibility of advanced technologies and their interaction with servo subsystems through simulation and prototyping

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with other teams to engineer design improvements

Communication Scope

Excellent global communication skills

Free ATS check

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