Jobs at Western Digital

• Own the outcome, not the tracker. The plan is an instrument. The measure is whether the ramp landed on time, at cost and at quality.
• Champion clear decisions. Most Program delay is undecided, not unknown. Frame the choice, name the decider, get it made and record it.

• Strategic Execution: Drive the development lifecycles of next-generation high-capacity storage enclosures from initial concept through architecture, board bring-up, validation, and global high-volume manufacturing.
• Engineering Leadership: Build, manage, and mentor a high-performance team of engineering direct...

• Define AI Vision — Establish WD's adoption roadmap and best practices for AI agents, LLMs, and intelligent tools across technology planning and engineering processes
• Lead AI-Managed Roadmap Platform Evolution — Guide post-launch improvements to our AI-enabled technology roadmap dashboard and chat interface, ensuring it becomes the organization's single source of truth

• Lead, develop, and retain a team of firmware engineers working across architecture, design, implementation, integration, debug, and sustaining activities.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and execution plans for the team, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps, schedule commitments, and quality expectations.

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.As AI scales, so does data.

• Facilitate and participate in team meetings and lead firmware and associated tooling development, maintaining clear and sufficient communication for a geographically distributed international development team to support business and technical objectives.
• Define hardware, firmware, and associated tools designs together with stakeholders and developm...

• Define the memory subsystem architecture (array, periphery, I/O, redundancy, test, reliability) and turn product requirements into a design spec
• Drive floorplan and physical architecture: array efficiency, periphery partitioning, power delivery, die-level signal integrity

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.As AI scales, so does data.

• Oversee execution of periodic filings with the SEC; including financial statement preparation, related notes, Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and other applicable reporting obligations
• Coordinate with our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on the execution of our annua...

• Lead the architecture, design, development, deployment, and long-term support of scalable web applications, APIs, and supporting services.
• Drive complex initiatives across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, release planning, deployment, and operational support.

• Support development and testing of hardware abstraction layers and engineering commands for channel hardware applications
• Assist in writing and maintaining validation scripts used as developer and debug tools

• Lead and execute research projects in quantum computing thin film materials stack design, and surface and interfaces control
• Lead effort in thin film materials stack characterization

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Metrology Equipment Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous learning
• Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and deliver timely, constructive feedback through formal performance reviews and ongoing coaching

• Serve as a senior technical authority for enterprise compute, virtualization, Windows, Linux, container, and server infrastructure.
• Develop architecture standards and reference designs for scalable, resilient, secure, and supportable infrastructure.

• Leading a multi-functional organization spanning Product Roadmap, Product Marketing & Product Introduction — each led by a Sr Director reporting directly to this role
• Managing and developing Sr. Director/Director-level leaders, setting direction, building organizational health, and holding them accountable for results across their respective domains

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for Product Development use cases spanning AI/ML, data analytics, and cloud — from data source through to the engineer’s interface.
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and technology standards, and select the tools the organization will standardize on.

• Perform wafer paper failure analysis (FA) and provide disposition for issues flagged by customers.
• Facilitate wafer manufacturing readiness review (MRR) and process design readiness (PDR) review meetings.

• Develop, qualify, and sustain wafer probe processes for new and existing products, including probe recipes, operating specifications, setup requirements, and engineering controls across both product development and high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Define, validate, and maintain probe card configurations and wafer test setups, supporting qual...

• Simulation of complex HDD servo-mechanical systems using various finite element analysis methods, including statics, dynamics, electromagnetics, vibro-acoustic and computational fluid dynamics.
• Perform correlation experiments to validate simulation results.

• Serve as the primary finance partner for Product & Engineering budget management.
• Partner closely with Product group executives to translate business and product strategies into financial plans.