Reliability Integration and Failure Analysis Engineer

About the role

WD is seeking a Drive Failure Analysis and Reliability Integration Engineer to join the Hyperscale HDD Development Team. This role involves analyzing failures from manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability testing to support root-cause determination. You will work at the intersection of hardware engineering, reliability, data analysis, and product development.

Responsibilities

• Analyze failures from manufacturing, engineering validation, and reliability testing to support root-cause determination.
• Partner with HDD Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer teams, and Reliability partners to define analysis plans and next steps.
• Use bench electrical failure analysis measurements, characterization data, and manufacturing data to determine likely failure causes.
• Document failure analysis data, summarize findings, and communicate conclusions to technical stakeholders.
• Apply programming and data analysis skills to improve reporting, trend analysis, and engineering efficiency.
• Support corrective action discussions that improve product reliability, quality, and recurrence prevention.

Qualifications

• Recently completed a BS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case in order to employ you now or at any point in the future.
• Academic, internship, project, or research experience involving data analysis, electronics testing, reliability, hardware, manufacturing, or technical problem solving.
• Familiarity with one or more programming or analysis tools such as MATLAB, TCL, Python, R, C, or C++.
• Strong organization, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask, take direction, and collaborate effectively within a technical team.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to electronics test equipment, data extraction, data visualization, statistics, hardware debugging, or manufacturing analytics.
• Interest in HDD, semiconductor, storage, reliability engineering, failure analysis, or product development.
• Internship, research, capstone, lab, or project experience that required technical documentation and data-based recommendations.