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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Staff Mechanical Failure Analysis Engineer - HDD

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeShanghai, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent is preferred.
  • Two to five years of experience in the hard disk drive or a related industry.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  • A hands-on approach and enjoyment of lab work, with the ability to perform analysis using high-power microscopes and precision equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform HDD teardown failure analysis for all customers from China.
  • Own the mechanical failure analysis process and equipment.
  • Document observations and conclusions through images, teardown analysis, and possible causes of failure.
  • Discuss failure analysis findings and communicate the next course of analysis.
  • Perform general housekeeping, including maintaining logs and calibration schedules for all lab equipment.
  • Interact across all levels of the organization.
  • Provide effective information on tool or process improvements related to failure analysis.

Desired Qualifications

  • Basic knowledge of hard disk drives and the head/disk interface.
  • Familiarity with analytical techniques including Raman spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
  • Familiarity with electrical failure analysis methodology and interpretation of findings.
  • Data analytical skills.

About the Company

Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Western Digital, which goes by WD, designs and makes hard disk drives, mostly the high-capacity models that cloud and AI data centers use to store huge amounts of data cheaply. In 2013, its HGST unit shipped the first helium-filled hard drives, which fit more disks into each drive and use less power. Its drives store data on stacks of spinning magnetic disks, and the lineup runs from Ultrastar data center drives to WD Red and WD Purple drives for home servers and security cameras. WD makes its money selling these drives to cloud companies, PC makers, and retail shoppers. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California, and in 2025 it spun off its flash memory business as Sandisk.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1970

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