Principal Failure Analysis Engineer

Overview

Principal Failure Analysis (FA) Lead for hard disk drive customer failure analysis across multiple HDD labs.

What you'll do

• Manage failure analysis activities and priorities to identify causes of failures on customer and field drives within time frames.
• Summarize FA results using key lab findings and causes of failure.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts across PCBA, Firmware, Reliability, Data Analytics, FA tools, and customer support/quality on customer issues.
• Engage in program/product/customer issue resolution meetings as part of an issue resolution team.
• Develop, improve, and document failure analysis procedures, processes, and requirements.
• Create and meet schedules for high priority FA and process improvements.
• Work on FA tool improvements such as drive log visualizations and FIO performance tests.

What you'll need

• 2+ years of failure analysis experience with Western Digital enterprise or client hard drives (highly desired).
• Hard disk drive failure analysis experience.
• Proven problem-solving skills.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Detailed knowledge of hard drives and knowledge of factory processes and storage applications.
• Strong interpersonal and teamworking skills.

Details

• Manages failure analysis activities across multiple hard disk drives labs.