Principal Engineer, Development Engineering

Company: Western Digital Corporation
Location: San Jose
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Western Digital (WD) Analytical Services is seeking a subject matter expert in Auger (AES) and ESCA (XPS) analysis, to join our world-class team supporting WD's research, development, and manufacturing efforts in hard disk drives and solid-state memory components. The successful candidate will join a team of surface scientists, electron microscopists and materials scientists who provide support throughout WD world-wide. WD has a large number of Auger and ESCA tools at a numerous world-wide locations. The person in this position will support all Auger/ESCA analyses at San Jose Analytical Science. QUALIFICATIONS: REQUIRED:

• Strong background and hands-on experience in Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) and Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis/X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ESCA/XPS)
• Ph.D. in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, or similar field is preferred. MS graduate with extensive experience will be also considered.
• 3+ years' experience, preferably in an industrial setting
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Superior oral and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a positive way with peers and customers at all levels
• Effectively manage projects/tasks/assignments, showing initiative and meeting expected timeframes PREFERRED:
  • Familiarity with other typical materials and failure analysis techniques
  • Equipment hardware troubleshooting
  • Matlab or other simple programming tools
  • Minitab, LabView and statistical six-sigma tools.
  • Experience with memory/storage components analysis
  • Experience with other surface analysis techniques such as TOF-SIMS and WDS is a plus. The future. It's on you. You & Western Digital. We've been storing the world's data for more than 50 years. Once, it was the most important thing we could do for data. Now we're helping the world capture, preserve, access and transform data in a way only we can. The most game-changing companies, consumers, professionals, and governments come to us for the technologies and solutions they need to capture, preserve, access, and transform their data. But we can't do it alone. Today's exceptional data challenges require your exceptional skills. It's You & Us. Together, we're the next big thing in data. Western Digital-- data-centric solutions are found under the G-Technology---, SanDisk--, Upthere---, and WD-- brands. Western Digital is an equal opportunity employer. Western Digital does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster . Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster.
    
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