Principal Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Embedded)

Job Description

Description

Western Digital®

We deliver the possibilities of data. YOU define what’s possible.

You will be part of an innovative, fast-paced team that is responsible for developing a wide variety of software solutions for internal and external customers.

You will be developing, testing, deploying and maintaining existing software solutions to support Western Digital’s storage products.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Product Owner team lead role
• Apply a high level of technical competency to lead complex technical projects from design through implementation, integration, and release, ensuring that the innovations meet the needs and standards of the internal and external customers
• Facilitate leadership and technical development to train and mentor developers within the team, facilitate knowledge-transfer to other teams, and bring team members along into new areas
• Provide input on the group’s technical direction and support change when necessary
• Aware of technical advances within the areas of embedded software engineering and HDDs and apply leadership skills to drive improvements within the team and organization
• Meet objectives with little direction and supervision
• Work collaboratively with other technical teams to plan and develop new features across various embedded software components
• Identify risks, generate recommendations, and implement solutions
• Ensure code quality meets high quality standards, and lead others to achieve high code quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields
• 4+ years in embedded software development for hard disk drives

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment.

We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within.

We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process.

Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@wdc.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 09 / 11 / 2024 (3 months from posting), 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

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education;
• qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results;

4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.

The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.

We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.

This range may be modified in the future.

You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.

Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan.

Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan.

RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical / dental / vision insurance;
• life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program;
• other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity;

tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.

The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.