Western Digital Staff Engineer System Design Verification Engineering 

Philippines, Baguio 

729636696

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for defining and tracking test plans through product development cycles from EVT through customer qualification and MP.

• Review NVMe SSD validation requirements from customer/architecture specs and influence future WD product design for debug and test.

• Monitor regression and qualification test cycles, perform first level FA and triage of failures, prepare and present testing statistics, and work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to drive issues through closure.
• Characterize and Optimize SSD’s for Performance and Power across Platforms
• Research and implement innovative ways to test/validate NVMe SSD’s.
• Lead bug review meetings.
• Act as gatekeeper for product release to customer.
• Maintain communication with technical marketing and applications engineering teams to ensure testplans satisfy product and customer specifications and mirror customer tests/qual procedures.
• Scope test tools and customer hardware requirements, ensuring the lab has appropriate customer systems and debug tools.

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE, CS, EE, or related technical field and 2 years of experience in validation of consumer products. Experience in storage device a plus.
• Experience with computer systems, components, and various OS (Windows, Linux, DOS)

• Strong programming knowledge & debugging skills in python, C or C++.

SKILLS:

• Hands on experience in PCIe and NVMe spec with SSD qualification and test development
• Hands on experience in analyzing PCIe protocol trace
• Hands on experience in sideband signal testing like SMBUS, PERST#, ClkReq#, PLP
• Hands on experience is Power characterization for NVMe SSDs based on different OEM requirements
• Strong analytical problem solving skills to troubleshoot variety of system-level issues down to system/device HW/SW
• Ability to multi-task, work efficiently in a group, as an individual, and in a team environment
• Strong leadership and communication skills

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.