Mechanical Design Engineer; Senior Technologist

Mechanical Design Engineer (Senior Technologist)

• Full-time
• Job Type (exemption status):
  Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Salary Range:
  
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• Business Function:
  Mechanical Design Engineering

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first‑ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, ™, and San Disk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest‑growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever‑growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Western Digital is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer (Senior Technologist) responsible for design and analysis of high‑performance storage systems and subsystems for the OEM and data center marketplace with specific focus on product design for the housing of hard disk drives (HDDs). The successful candidate will work to develop products that are robust in their ability to withstand shock, vibration, thermal, acoustic, and other environmental challenges when deployed to a field environment yet world class in their design principles.

Apply design and working knowledge of HDDs to impact the design of other portions of an enclosure housing HDDs and other system level components such as printed circuit boards, sheet metal and plastic components, system fans. The ability to work alongside HDD development engineering staff as well as enclosure development team members is critical in the role of this position as well as the ability to collect population level data for an enclosure housing many HDDs and then boil down HDD interaction with other portions of the system using statistical analysis and HDD functional knowledge.

Shock, vibration, and acoustic experience will be utilized in this position to influence design optimization of an enclosure with intellectual property developed as part of the enclosure design. Intimate knowledge of Solid Works and ANSYS and its application to part design and study as well as tool and fixture design will entail a portion of the job. Data acquisition and analysis from a variety of sensors using unique Matlab scripting is also a portion of the job.

The Mechanical Design Engineer (Senior Technologist) will be the lead HDD subject matter expert and resource to the enclosure development team for the mechanical design and development of datacenter storage systems and subsystems consisting of sheet metal parts, plastic injection molded parts, assemblies, HDDs, solid state drives, fans, power supplies, electronic printed circuit boards (PCB’s) with high‑speed communication interfaces and rack‑based hardware.

Due to the complex interrelationships of these systems, the candidate will need to hold vast demonstrable mechanical engineering expertise in how to provide as quiescent an environment for an HDD to function within. The ideal candidate will have the ability to readily conduct HDD level and system level analysis of how an array of HDDs are functioning relative to other HDDs in the system and HDD interaction with both vibration and acoustic noise due to fans and other sources.

The engineer will interact with the HDD servo development team, enclosure development, and program management team members as well as hyper‑scale customers of WD and may direct/lead the work of others. In addition to a broad background across…