Technologist, Firmware Engineering

  • Full-time
  • Business Function: Firmware Engineering
  • Work Location: San Jose Drive Engineering Office--LOC_WDT_USCA08

Company Description

The future. It’s on you. You & Western Digital.

We’ve been storing the world’s data for more than 50 years. Once, it was the most important thing we could do for data. Now we’re helping the world capture, preserve, access and transform data in a way only we can.

The most game-changing companies, consumers, professionals, and governments come to us for the technologies and solutions they need to capture, preserve, access, and transform their data.

But we can’t do it alone. Today’s exceptional data challenges require your exceptional skills. It’s You & Us. Together, we’re the next big thing in data.

Western Digital® data-centric solutions are found under the G-Technology™, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile™, Upthere™, and WD® brands.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Cross functional design phase input and review
  • Triage protocol issues for entire stack on a SAS fabric based platform product.
  • Responsible for implementing storage based algorithms on a platform level.
  • Implement drivers in Linux environment.  
  • Analyze and characterize designs via engineering verification testing
  • Support of New technologies - development, characterization and integration
  • Sustain in field Firmware issues.
  • Problem solving at all phases of product development
  • Analyze existing test process for System development and test process development
  • Yield improvement
  • Reliability improvement

Additional Information

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