Technologist - Thin Film Process

Job Description

Job Description Summary

Taking an overall leader role in technical aspects and team collaboration to provide engineering support to the thin film deposition processes in manufacture lines in order to meet manufacturing objectives with high quality, high productive and low cost products, as well as support the development of future generation products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead thin-film deposition manufacture process team, to sustain the production line, monitor processes and equipment to ensure minimal deviations, meeting quality and demand target. Respond to the requests in a timely manner; Able to resolve the problem in an efficient way.

• Ensure the quality and minimize the risks of damages to the products by improvements in process margin and robustness of detection and procedure.

• Lead the projects and deliver results on schedule either independently or with cross-functional team. The projects include not limited to failure analysis, troubleshoot production line issues, yield improvement, new tool or new process development, cost reduction.

• Collaborate with integration and research and development team to smoothly transfer new processes and products into production lines.

• Set up and improve automation systems and working instruction documents. Provide the training instruction to the operators.

• Build up work related knowledge through self-learning.

Qualifications

• Substantial academic background in Material Science, Physics, Chemistry, or related engineering fields

• Experience of wafer fab operations/processes in Data Storage and/or Semiconductor technology industries

• Demonstrate strong technical knowledge in thin film deposition processes (PVD, CVD, IBD, etc), and solid background on correlation of process and equipment hardware

• Deep understanding of material characterization techniques. Knowledge of Magnetic material process and characterization is a plus.

• Knowledge of DOE and data analysis using JMP

• Understanding of SPC.

• Systematic trouble shooting and problem solving skill.

• Leadership and communication skill, and good team player.

• Being self-motivation, and good project management skill

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

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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.