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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

生産技術開発エンジニア(機械装置設計)Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing EngineeringUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeFujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

About the Job

Requirements

  • Graduated from a technical college or university.
  • Experience in either manufacturing engineering development or mechanical design.
  • Business-level Japanese proficiency or higher.
  • Comfortable using English; reading and writing English for specifications and email are required, and the role includes participation in English-language meetings.

Responsibilities

  • Discuss concept designs as a team.
  • Conduct basic experiments to refine and establish concepts.
  • Prepare manufacturing-equipment specifications and cost estimates.
  • Place orders with external suppliers, including manufacturing-equipment manufacturers.
  • Evaluate prototype equipment and check its functions.
  • Transfer production lines to overseas mass-production sites in Thailand and launch the mass-production lines.
  • After the mass-production line launch, perform in-house maintenance in response to troubles and improvement proposals.
  • Design and develop tools for new products, meet with the development department, and place orders with external suppliers.
  • Evaluate prototype tools for new products and check their functions.
  • Lead the development of next-generation manufacturing equipment from concept through introduction to mass production, including deployment and ramp-up at overseas production sites.
  • Depending on experience, plan projects, evaluate business viability, coordinate stakeholders, manage execution, and lead cross-functional teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Project leadership experience.
  • Experience in equipment design, facility/equipment ramp-up, and improvement.
  • Mechanical design experience using 3D computer-aided design (CAD); the company uses SolidWorks.
  • Experience using programmable logic controllers (PLCs); the company uses Mitsubishi PLCs.
  • Business-level English 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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