Job Description

About Western Digital

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.

Position Background

As part of the multi-site team, you will get to collaborate and design solutions for the challenging yet unique problems in HDD firmware development. This position is based in in Western Digital Tech and Regional Center (M), which is a Center of Excellence located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Our team is focused on quality and validation of next generation firmware architecture and algorithms to deliver high performance and cost-efficient enterprise HDD products. Employee will be working in a development environment with opportunity to learn and grow in multiple disciplines.

The position is currently only open to Malaysian as there is limitation of expatriate hiring in the guideline.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, integrate and maintain quality firmware for eHDD using best practices like unit test, CI and Agile methodologies.
• Design and implementation of data structures, software algorithms, data path, and drivers for hardware cores using latest standards C++ and Python.
• Participate in Scrum & Agile processes to bring up new hardware and develop embedded firmware for data storage products.
• Deliver cutting-edge storage products with SAS, SATA, PCIE interfaces.
• Collaborate and design solutions for the challenging yet unique problems across hardware and software platforms, including servers, RAID, and various operating systems (Windows and Linux).
• Participate in planning and coordinating significant technical investigations from problem statement to conclusions.
• Create design documents pertinent to the various phases of firmware development.

• Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics Engineering or equivalent required.
• Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Knowledge in C/C++, object-oriented programming, Python, data structures, algorithms.
• Capable of quickly learning new firmware, hardware, systems, tools, and methodologies.
• Ability to effectively manage projects and tasks to deliver deadlines and commitments.
• You have high degree of problem solving skills, solutions oriented with a positive, can-do attitude.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication.
• You are comfortable and enjoy working in a dynamic and ever evolving environment.
• You can be a fun and enthusiastic teammate who enjoys challenges and celebrates successes.

• Work experience in relevant field or embedded firmware experience.
• Familiarity with micro-controller architecture (ARM or ARC), embedded systems and RTOS desired.
• Knowledge in SAS, SATA and PCIE interface.
• Experience in the use of bus analyzers, emulators and other firmware debugging tools is a plus.
• Possess data analytics skillset such as machine learning.
• Work experience as a Scrum Master or understanding of Agile practices would be an added advantage