Principal Process Engineer - Thin Film Job at Western Digital in Fremont

Overview

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.

Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. 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, 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

We are seeking a highly motivated candidate to join our thin film process group. In this role, the candidate will work as a Thin Film Process Engineer at WD’s wafer fab in Fremont, CA. The candidate will support the thin film deposition processes in manufacture lines in order to meet manufacturing objectives with high quality, high productivity and low-cost products, as well as support the development of future generation products.

Responsibilities

• Support thin film processes of fab production line to deliver wafers with good quality and meet the demand.
• Develop and optimize process control methods and procedures to guarantee the quality and prevent damage excursions.
• Improve processes to achieve lower variation, less cycle time, higher throughput, minimal defects, lower cost of ownership and overall higher yield.
• Perform wafer failure analysis, troubleshooting, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transfer new products to production.
• Lead project execution to deliver the results on schedule.
• Set up and improve automation systems, and working instruction documents. Provide the training instruction to the operators.
• Support fab production 24 / 7, including taking immediate action with fab issues.

Qualifications

Required :

Preferred :

Skills

Additional Information

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12 / 3 / 25, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

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