Western Digital

Wafer Metrology Development Engineer

Western Digital

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • United States

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Salary

💰 $140,300 - $187,000 per year

About the role

  • Provide technical leadership and hands-on metrology support for magnetic recording wafer process development, with a focus on overlay, AFM, and CDSEM measurements for critical dimension (CD), profile, and topography characterization
  • Partner closely with magnetic recording head process R&D engineers to define, develop, and deploy advanced metrology solutions, including new measurement methodologies and algorithms
  • Lead metrology strategy for development programs while ensuring robust day-to-day measurement execution across multiple projects
  • Serve as a core technical contributor within the R&D metrology organization, driving best practices and knowledge transfer while working in close alignment with the manufacturing metrology team to ensure consistency from development through production

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Physics, Materials Science, or a related scientific discipline
  • 5 or more years of relevant metrology experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 2–3 or more years of relevant metrology experience with a Master’s or Ph.D. degree
  • Deep technical expertise in at least one metrology domain (AFM, CDSEM, or overlay), with working knowledge across all three areas required
  • Proven experience supporting and leading metrology efforts for R&D and/or manufacturing in a high-technology environment
  • Strong data analysis skills using industry-standard tools; experience with programming or scripting languages is a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence across multidisciplinary engineering teams; proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
Benefits
  • 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
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
metrologyAFMCDSEMoverlaydata analysismeasurement methodologiesalgorithms
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcommunicationinfluencecollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degreePh.D. degree