Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering

Job Description





ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES





Western Digital, the premiere producer of hard disk drives (WD and G-Technology brands) is seeking an engineer to prepare site-specific TEM lamella from HDD head wafer samples.





The “heads” used to read and write information onto magnetic media in hard drives are manufactured on wafers using the same processes found in the semiconductor industry.





There are over 100,000 heads on a single wafer, and critical features are on the nanometer size scale, with individual layers of material less than a single nanometer in thickness.





The primary purpose of our work is to support the development and manufacture of the next of head reader technology.