(NEW GRAD ONLY) Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineering

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Provide in-depth analysis for critical failures related to the servo-mechanical issue, Hardware/Software troubleshooting, setup of existing or new capability supporting the organization.
• Facilitate Engineering Evaluations on design changes, component revision rolls, process verifications or any deviations in materials or components to ascertain effects or benefits on production line yield, scrap, cycle time, OQA and reliability performance.
• Develop, maintain, and update a working knowledge on component technology, manufacturing methods and parts application, providing technical information for a colleague.
• Participate in product and technology transfers between Designer and Manufacturing, Work with Design Engineering from San Jose and Fujisawa on Component Design Enhancements, Engineering Change, Evaluations and coordinate implementation in the Factories.
• Provide team leadership in task-force and action teams in driving critical issues/failure.
• In-depth expertise in the major function of the department supporting the organization on critical studies and issues.
• Derive and develop CA for future improvement on products by performing design change based on lessons learned.
• Ensure commonality or standardization among the same process or system within related manufacturing sites.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or Physics
• Working experience preferably in the HDD or consumer electronics industries.
• Knowledge of MS-office, SPC, Big data platform, Minitab, JMP data analysis, MATLAB, Solidworks, GD&T, DOE, Mechanical Drawing Interpretation, electro-mechanical troubleshooting.
• Capable of performing mechanical stack-up tolerance analysis.
• Good understanding of team working and how to integrate with others to achieve objectives
• High quality of work and a good understanding of the impact of accurate data collection on failure analysis.
• Take personal responsibility for actions and provide support to a highly motivated team working at a fast pace.
• Uses communication skills to regularly exchange information
• History of problem-solving; able to drive problems to resolution 

Skills:

• Proficiency in a range of analytical processes or procedures to carry out assigned tasks
• Skills in Technical problem-solving 
• Skills in Flexible and adaptable and Service-minded
• Good English communication skills, verbal and written

Additional Information

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