Principal Engineer, Quality Engineering

Company Description

Western Digital Corporation is the world’s largest data storage company with a leading portfolio of HGST, SanDisk, G-Technology and WD brands covering flash and disk-based solutions. Deployed by the largest and most prominent organizations worldwide, Western Digital solutions are everywhere, touching lives and enabling great value from the data they possess.

Western Digital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Western Digital does not unlawfully discriminate and complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following EEO Is The Law poster: Equal Employment Opportunity Is The Law.

Job Description

In this role you will have the opportunity to Work as Principal Engineer, Quality Assurance accountable for overall product quality of the NPI releases.

The Principal Engineer provides independent oversight of the design input process, design V&V activities, design transfer and product realization, and performance in the field to ensure that all design requirements are effectively met.

The Principal Engineer also provides analytics to the Business on the efficacy, efficiency of the design and product realization processes. Opportunity to learn End to End product development as Responsible Quality representative driving compliance throughout Product life cycle.

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our Quality and Reliability Engineering team.

The candidate is expected to have demonstrated proficiency in the philosophy of Quality.

The candidate should demonstrate strong systems engineering fundamentals across all critical engineering domains important to product quality.

The candidate should be able to challenge the status quo and be able to appropriately represent the “voice of the customer” to core teams while making decisions related to product quality. The ideal successful candidate

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of product quality from PRD to Production handover for high volume production development until sustaining.
• Single point of contact, representing and driving quality in all program team meetings.
• Conduct cross-site, cross-team lessons learned for any Quality issues during development and sustaining phases of Product Life-Cycle
• Participate in Engineering reviews ( PRD, DFx, Qualification sync, test plan, RDT ) and forecast potential quality risk
• Perform quality risk assessment to a project and drive for mitigations enabling business, apart from being a gatekeeper
• Identify process gaps in the Product Life Cycle (PLC) and continuously highlight improvement actions for the execution teams
• Influence quality culture and mindset across the company and bring in more strategic goals
• Demonstrated to take data based decisions and resolve contentions

Qualifications

Requirements / Qualification

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical/Electronic based Engineering
• 10 to 12yrs of certified professional experience in quality engineering
• Thorough understanding on Product Life Cycle and process-gap identification
• Exposure to factory processes and hands-on is a big advantage

Experience and hands-on in

• E2E product development, factory and customer quality
• Driving product quality and reliability working with CFT, Six sigma GB/BB would be added advantage
• Design for Quality / Reliability, pFMEA, DFMEA, DFM, DFT, Root cause analysis
• NPI product development and sustenance
• Data analysis and data-based decision making and action
• Process improvements drives for structural quality improvements
• Influencing CFT for decisions of betterment of quality

Good understanding on

• Program Management
• Quality challenges and levers
• Product Qualification cycle
• RDT & ORT for Electronics

Have Demonstrated

• Strong teamwork
• Communication and leadership capabilities in driving cross-functional working teams
• Strategically and methodically thinking to bring the right balance of product quality in meeting customer and company needs is essential to the success of this role
• Influencing skills

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.