Principal Engineer - Emerging Memory and Compute

About the role

The Research Staff Member position is within the device physics and electrical testing group in Western Digital's research department. The role involves bringing up electrical test equipment and test code, designing electrical test procedures, analyzing test data, generating reports, and presenting analysis to the team. The role also includes working with design, array architecture, materials, and process teams to drive improvements in the technology. The successful candidate should have extensive coding experience in Python for instrumentation and data analysis, strong scientific collaboration and communication skills, and hands-on electrical device measurement skills.

Responsibilities

• Bring up electrical test equipment & test code
• Design and optimize electrical test procedures for assessing key performance metrics
• Analyze test data and generate reports
• Present analysis to the team
• Collaborate with design, array architecture, materials, and process teams to drive next steps to improve the technology

Requirements

• Minimum of a Ph.D. in Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or closely related field
• Additional postdoctoral work in academia or industry preferred
• Viable candidate must show extensive coding experience in Python for instrumentation and data analysis
• Extensive experience designing and optimizing electrical test procedures for assessing key performance metrics
• Strong scientific collaboration and communication skills
• Good hands-on electrical device measurement skills
• Good working knowledge of semiconductor or magnetic device physics
• Experience with emerging memories such as MRAM, ReRAM, or PCM
• Track record of publications and patents

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or closely related field

Skills

• Expertise in electrical device equipment, such as AWGs, pulse generators, and oscilloscopes
• Experience with emerging memories such as MRAM, ReRAM, or PCM
• Track record of publications and patents

Benefits

WD offers 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 WD Savings 401(k) Plan. Not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan.

Pay

Compensation is based on several factors including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, and experience; skills, ability, knowledge of the job; performance, contribution and results; geographic location; shift; internal and external equity; and 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.

Schedule

The schedule for this role is full-time.