Failure Analysis Manager - KV

Position: Failure Analysis Manager (Job ID: 20224)

• West

• Basic + AWS + VB
  

Job Description:

• Manage and mentor a specialised team of FA engineers; oversee lab operations, including equipment maintenance and safety protocols.

• Root Cause Investigation: Lead in-depth investigations into media defects, such as protrusions, pits, scratches, lubricant migration, and corrosion, and their impact on drive-level reliability.

• Advanced Diagnostics: Oversee the use of high-end analytical tools to characterise defects at the atomic and magnetic levels.

• Cross-Functional Synergy: Partner with Media Process Development teams to correlate findings from FA with process variables. Also acts as a technical bridge between the Media teams and HDD Integration/Customer Quality teams.

• Strategic Reporting: Translate complex microscopic and chemical data into actionable executive summaries to drive both media and HDD yield improvement and product roadmaps.
  

Job Requirements:

• Masters or Ph.D. in Materials Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum 8-10 years in the HDD industry, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial capacity.

• Demonstrated expertise in 8D, FMEA, and root cause analysis.

• Experience in JMP, Minitab, or Python for statistical analysis and defect mapping.

• Solid understanding of media manufacturing processes, thin-film deposition (sputtering), carbon overcoats, lubricant chemistry, and substrate topography.

• Expert-level knowledge of analytical tool like SEM/EDX, FIB, AFM, XPS, Optical Surface Profilometry (OSA Candela, Zygo etc).

• Understanding of HDD Channel Physics, Servo Systems, Head-Disk Interface (HDI), magnetic recording physics (PMR/HAMR), and the characteristics of glass and aluminum substrates.
  

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