Onsite Senior Optical Integration Staff Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Staff Engineer integrating optics and laser designs into hard disk drives at Seagate. Responsible for design, calibration, and validation of laser systems for HDD products.

Responsibilities

  • Use knowledge of optics physics and laser design to integrate new laser, channel wave guide, and NFT designs into HDDs.
  • Design calibration methods that accommodate manufacturing variation in light delivery in the drive.
  • Design tuning and optimization techniques that accommodate thermal, head-disk-spacing, and other sources of variation during the drive operating lifetime.
  • Work with the laser and head manufacturing team to specify and validate light delivery CTQs.
  • Serve as an optical and laser subject matter expert in cross-functional technology development teams.
  • Work to understand laser failure modes and design in-situ burn-in techniques, runtime failure detection features, and post-failure analysis techniques.
  • Design integrated-laser characterization tests that can be performed in the formatting and test process to improve both screening efficiency and design and manufacturing feedback.
  • Understand sources of fast-time-constant variation that can lead to areal density capability loss and specify design opportunities for areal density improvement.
  • Demonstrate and validate new early design samples using drive bench techniques and tools.
  • Contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, journal articles, and/or white papers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering and 12+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering and 8+ years of experience, or PHD and 5+ years of experience or equivalent education and experience
  • Demonstrated expertise in optics, optoelectronics, optical system design, laser sources, and integrated photonics.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
  • medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • short-and long-term disability
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • health savings account
  • dependent care
  • healthcare spending accounts
  • paid time off, including 12 holidays
  • flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy
  • a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Job title

Senior Optical Integration Staff Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$144,164 - $210,107 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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