Staff Embedded System Engineer
Western DigitalIrvine, CAPosted 21 April 2026
Job Description
This position is not open to relocation
Embedded System Engineer to provide electronics support to firmware, manufacturing, and customer facing teams for all HDD products:
Provide firmware support. Collaborate with firmware development teams to ensure new hardware features are utilized completely and correctly. Work with the FW and HW design team to quickly resolve any electronic issues to ensure product schedules are not gated - includes working with the FW team to come up with a Firmware solution for hardware use cases. Provide Manufacturing Support. Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure electronic issues are quickly resolved to not impact yield, quality, or shipments to customers. Develop tools and data mining strategies to monitor and assess failure trends in manufacturing. Provide Customer Support. Collaborate with FAE and WWFA teams to ensure issues do not delay qualification or impact customer satisfaction. Data mining of customer data for failure trends. Staff Embedded System Engineers have broad system level knowledge and some subject matter expertise in one or more areas of the design. They should be aware of technical advances within their area of specialization and may contribute to setting the direction necessary for the group to continuously improve its ability to solve problems and provide support. Staff Embedded System Engineers should utilize methodical problem-solving processes.  They are proficient in using debug tools and techniques. They should own and maintain the tools utilized in their area of expertise. They should be able to independently solve complex problems in their area of expertise. Staff Engineers should meet their goals with some direction and supervision. They should proactively provide status with clear and concise summaries of complex problems.
MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS
BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering Experience with failure modes to triage system failures, and use of tools to isolate failure(s) of a particular design area: Blink Codes, error logs (ShowStop/Debug Snapshots), Bus Traces, firmware Event Trace Logging (ETL), debug PCBA design  Experience with high speed signal guidelines of printed circuit boards and ability to identify potential signal integrity problems when reviewing schematics Proficient in Hardware debug using oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzers, bus analyzers, hardware embedded trace, test muxes, GHS Probe, and Serial Debugger. System level knowledge of HDD with understanding of both firmware and hardware. Experience programming using C++ code. Ability to modify code for design-of-experiments. Ability to develop and maintain test scripts written in TCL and Python.  Strong Problem Solving including practical knowledge of A3 and 8D methodologies. Strong communication. Especially the ability to collaborate across engineering organizations, geographies, and cultures. Also, the ability to provide clear and concise summaries of complex problems.
Because Western Digital thrives on the power of diversity and is committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect, and contribution, we are committed to giving every qualified applicant and employee an equal opportunity.  Western Digital does not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their protected class status and complies with all federal and state laws against discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, as well as the laws and regulations set forth in the "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster.  #LI-TD1
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