Company Description
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®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® 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.
Job Description
The job opening is for a full-time Research Staff Member in the Western Digital Corporation emerging device fabrication group.

• Build nanoscale devices for a range of exploratory projects such as non-volatile memories, novel magnetic biosensor applications, AI memory/compute architectures, superconducting qubits, superconducting electronics, etc.
• We are looking for a scientist/engineer with a strong background in chemical mechanical polishing and nanoscale device processing. The candidate we hire will own the CMP sector in our research cleanroom, where he/she will be responsible for developing new polishing recipes for a wide array of devices, ranging from emerging memories, to qubits, to advanced biological sensors.
• In addition, in time he/she will help integrate these CMP techniques into a variety of our process flows.
• The device fabrication is performed in a state-of-the art research cleanroom on our San Jose headquarters campus. You will be joining a fabrication team of 20+ engineers and technicians with nearly 500 years of combined nanofabrication experience.
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