Principal Engineer, Failure Analysis Engineering

Western Digital

📍 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

full-time Engineers Posted March 02, 2026

Job Description

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manage FA activities, priorities and identifying causes of failures and related drive problems on customer and qualification drives.
  • Collaborate closely with and guide FA lab analysts.
  • Summarize FA results based on key lab findings and causes of failure.
  • Pro-actively engage with subject matter experts in PCBA, Firmware, Reliability, Data Analytics, FA Tools, Customer Technical Support and Customer Quality Managers, Factory FA and Quality teams on customer and qualification issues.
  • Follow department/work group processes.
  • Develop, improve, and document failure analysis procedures, processes, and requirements.
  • Participate in selected Program/Product/Customer issue resolution meetings and act as an integral part of the issue resolution team.
  • Effectively present information, ideas, and your perspective to peers, team members and managers.
  • Create and m...