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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Manufacturing Engineering

Validation, Compliance & Quality SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBayan Lepas, Penang, MalaysiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Materials, or Environmental), Microbiology, or a related technical field is required.
  • Four to seven years of experience in contamination control, cleanroom engineering, or environmental monitoring in the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, aerospace, or biotechnology industries is required.
  • Familiarity with laboratory testing methods such as liquid particle counters, airborne particle counters, ion chromatography, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
  • Strong knowledge of ISO 14644, IEST standards, and cleanroom classification systems.
  • Familiarity with cleanroom protocols, clean build practices, and indirect material qualification.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement, and monitor cleanroom environmental surveys to verify compliance and support area buy-off.
  • Develop and execute contamination sampling plans for cleanroom environmental, equipment, tool, and process samples to ensure cleanliness and prevent yield-impacting defects.
  • Perform routine and event-based environmental and equipment sampling to support operational readiness and cleanroom classification.
  • Manage the handling and qualification of cleanroom indirect materials by setting cleanliness criteria, performing inspections, and approving materials for use.
  • Define cleanroom protocols, including gowning, behavior, and contamination-prevention practices, and provide training to ensure compliance.
  • Define and coordinate the implementation of test plans with laboratories, analyze cleanliness data, investigate deviations, and recommend mitigation actions for product and process cleanliness compliance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in production, facilities, quality, and engineering to support contamination-control strategies and maintain acceptable cleanliness levels.

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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