Western Digital · 9 hours ago
Applications Engineer (Qual Product)
Irvine, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expWestern Digital is a company dedicated to powering global innovation through advanced technology solutions. The Applications Engineer will serve as the primary contact for OEM customers, managing qualification plans and ensuring product specifications align with customer requirements while coordinating discussions and managing qualification activities.
Big DataComputerHardwareManufacturingSoftware
Responsibilities
AE, Applications Engineer in HDD works as the focal point of contact for OEM customers in Surveillance, Connected Home and NAS applications as well as for WDC internal Engineering and Marketing teams to manage qualification plans and drive actions to align Product specification and designs with Customer's requirements
AE is responsible to track all technical and design requirements from OEM customer, and ensure those are reviewed by the relevant team and incorporated into product design in timely manner, which occasionally requires in-depth discussion and negotiation with Customer and/or Engineer team
Coordination of such discussions is owned by AE as well
AE manages all qualification activities, starting from specification alignment, qualification sample forecasting and tracking of them, open issue tracking (FA and Engineering discussion) and drives actions to closures
Leading discussions with FE (Field Engineer) for OEM customer product design and requirements is another key role for AE, which requires relationship building with key customer stakeholders
AE is accountable to deliver all qualification deliverables including but not limited to Qual reports, any product information required by Customer, FA report during qualification if there are any issues
AE will have BOM management, factory process, technical reference manual as well as customer label release responsibility
Before a new product qualification cycle starts, AE starts to work with relevant internal and external teams to prepare such deliverables ahead of time
Qualification
Required
BS or above in Engineering field is required
Storage device background is must
HDD product experience preferred and Flash is a bonus
Engineering educational background is strongly desired
Minimum 2 years of customer interaction experience is required
Flexible work hours required to work with teams in multi time zones – world-wide
Result-oriented mindset to drive actions is must
Multi-tasking capability is required to drive actions in timely manner
Willingness to learn new things, adaptability to new environment are must
Need to be fluent in English for casual and business conversations, Mandarin as well as other languages is a strong plus
This job is to be based out of Irvine preferred, Pacific Std Time option and minimal within the US with working hours for pst
Benefits
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
The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
Company
Western Digital
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$901.37M2023-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $1.37M
2023-01-31Post Ipo Equity· $900M
2015-09-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
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SVP, CIO
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Founder
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