Drive Teardown Failure Analysis Engineer
Core
Identify causes of HAMR and ePMR HDD failures through physical teardown, lab-based inspection, and collaboration with reliability teams to improve product quality.
Role type
Early career failure analysis engineer (hard drive)
Builds
Hyperscale HDDs for data storage
Domain
Storage hardware / Materials science
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
HDD teardown, clean room procedures, electrical failure analysis review, technical documentation, root cause investigation
Preferred skills
Optical microscopy, SEM, AFM, Raman, ToF-SIMS, materials characterization, reliability testing
Responsibilities
Perform hands-on HDD teardown in Class 100 clean room, review electrical failure analysis results, document failure causes and next steps, prepare failure analysis reports, partner with functional teams to prevent recurrence
Seniority
Early career (0–2+ years experience)
