full-time

Senior Engineer, Failure Analysis Engineering

Posted by Western Digital • Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia

📍 Bayan Lepas, Penang 🕒 February 26, 2026

About the Role

Job Description

  • Conduct and supervise Failure Analysis (FA) activities for Production and New Product Introduction (NPI) samples, including trend analysis, reporting, and defect characterization.
  • Manage and mentor a team of technicians for media FA analysis and defect characterization using first level FA equipment.
  • Coordinate second-level analysis with analytical lab teams.
  • Generate and communicate comprehensive FA findings to stakeholders, including quarterly defect pareto reports
  • Collaborate with Yield/Defect Engineering, Process Teams, QC Teams, and Analytical Teams to drive yield and quality improvements
  • Participate in cross-functional meetings and global FA initiatives to share knowledge and best practices, including FA Database
  • Drive defect unification initiatives and FA methodology improvements
  • Maintain & update defect library when necessary.
  • Carry out simulations & experiments to...

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