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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Post Sputter Process Engineer - Manufacturing Engineering

Process EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBayan Lepas, Penang, MalaysiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A degree in Materials Science, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Applied Science, or a related field is required.
  • Proficiency in applying analytics and artificial intelligence models to develop new processes.
  • Effective written and spoken English is required for collaboration with cross-site teams in the United States and China.

Responsibilities

  • Develop post-sputter engineering processes, focusing on lubrication and tape polish.
  • Qualify new processes by conducting evaluations, collecting data, and interpreting results using statistical tools.
  • Participate in and lead Post Sputter Engineering activities within New Product Introduction task forces.
  • Coordinate New Product Introduction runs in the post-sputter process area.
  • Document processes, procedures, and best practices.
  • Use Minitab and Spotfire to support data-driven decision-making.
  • Participate in and lead failure mode and effects analysis, Process Verification, and IMS activities related to post-sputter processes.
  • Collaborate with Maintenance Engineering, Quality Assurance, Analytics, and other teams to drive process improvements.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and ellipsometry, including independently interpreting spectra and developing film property models from raw data.

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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