Engineer Embedded System Engineering at Western Digital
Irvine, CA
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Jul 9, 2026
Irvine, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits at the intersection of hardware and firmware for hard disk drive products, supporting firmware development teams, manufacturing operations, and customer-facing engineers when electronic issues arise. Day-to-day work involves debugging hardware and firmware problems using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and bus analyzers, as well as writing and maintaining test scripts and data-mining tools to track failure trends. It suits engineers with a solid grounding in embedded systems, PCB signal integrity, and C++/Python/TCL development.
Mid level · National · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (6)
This role sits at the intersection of embedded hardware and firmware engineering for Hard Disk Drive (HDD) products. The primary day-to-day work involves hardware debug, firmware support, and tool/script development — a genuine hybrid of 15-1252 (Software Developers) and embedded/hardware engineering. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as a runner-up given the strong hardware debug component.
No work location city is specified in the posting. The compensation range note references California, Colorado, and New York as applicable states, suggesting the role may be based at one of WD's US facilities or be remote-eligible in those states, but no single metro is identified.
The required degree is a BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering. BS is treated as the minimum hard requirement.
Skills such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, bus analyzers, signal generators, GHS Probe, and hardware embedded trace appear in the 'Required' qualifications section and are treated as hard gates despite being hardware debug instruments rather than software tools.
The 'SKILLS' section (C++, Python, TCL, A3/8D problem-solving) is a secondary block within the qualifications area. C++, Python, and TCL are concrete named technologies and are treated as required. A3 and 8D are methodologies, not named tools, and are omitted per extraction rules.
No explicit total years of experience are stated for the role overall. The scope description ('meet their goals with some direction and supervision') aligns with a mid-level engineer.
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