Senior Engineer, Systems Design Engineering
Core
Investigate and determine root causes of hard disk drive failures across development, qualification, manufacturing, and field operations to improve product reliability and quality.
Role type
Junior failure analysis engineer (electromechanical/magnetic recording)
Builds
Corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) for HDD reliability
Domain
Storage hardware / Electromechanical systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
root cause analysis (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone), semiconductor/device physics, materials science, reliability engineering, failure analysis techniques (oscilloscope, multimeter, waveform analysis), PCB/IC packaging knowledge, statistical analysis (Minitab, JMP, MATLAB), C/C++/Python/TCL programming
Preferred skills
schematic reading, laboratory equipment familiarity, data interpretation, cross-functional collaboration
Technologies
Oscilloscope, Multimeter, Minitab, JMP, MATLAB, C, C++, Python, TCL
Responsibilities
Provide verbal and written status including FA summaries and test reports; maintain documentation of test procedures and update failure tracking databases; perform structured root cause analysis to identify design, process, supplier, or usage-related failures; drive corrective and preventive actions with design, manufacturing, and suppliers; validate fixes through FA closure and re-testing
Seniority
Junior, entry-level IC
