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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Engineer – Software Development Engineering - Embedded

Embedded EngineeringPosted on Nov 10
Full-timePetaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of C/C++, object-oriented programming, Python, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Ability to quickly learn new firmware, hardware, systems, tools, and methodologies.
  • Ability to manage projects and tasks to deliver deadlines and commitments.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a solution-focused, adaptive mindset.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, integrate, and maintain quality firmware for eHDD using unit testing, continuous integration, and Agile methodologies.
  • Design and implement data structures, software algorithms, data paths, and drivers for hardware cores using C++ and Python.
  • Participate in Scrum and Agile processes to bring up new hardware and develop embedded firmware for data storage products.
  • Collaborate on solutions to problems across hardware and software platforms, including servers, RAID, Windows, and Linux.
  • Plan and coordinate technical investigations from problem statements through conclusions.
  • Create design documents for phases of firmware development.
  • Devise strategies for in-depth functionality and compatibility testing of complex drive features.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with microcontroller architecture (ARM or ARC), embedded systems, and real-time operating systems.
  • Knowledge of SAS, SATA, and PCIe interfaces.
  • Experience using bus analyzers, emulators, and other firmware debugging tools.
  • Data analytics skills such as machine learning.
  • Experience working in a Scrum team or understanding of Agile practices.

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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