Servo Control Engineer

About the Role

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide. We are looking for individuals to build, solve, and operate at a high level. This role is part of WD's early career development program, ideal for individuals at the early stages of their professional careers, with responsibilities typically aligned with candidates who have approximately 0–2+ years of relevant professional experience, though candidates of all experience levels are encouraged to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for optimizing the high performance and robust positioning controller, and real-time servo firmware development for enterprise-class hard disk drives.
• Architect a robust servo system, compensating for environmental variables such as vibration, shock, supply voltage and temperature.
• Research, design, develop and maintain tools and equipment related to characterization and qualifying robust servo design.
• Provide failure analysis support for integration teams, manufacturing, and reliability testing.
• Collaborate with other teams to engineer design improvements that enhance robustness, minimize failures and optimize performance in all usage conditions.
• Evaluate feasibility of advanced technologies and their interaction with servo subsystems through simulation and prototyping.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Currently pursuing or recently completed an MS or PhD in EE or ME.
• Must have experience with servo-controller design for mechanical dynamic systems.
• Familiarity with design tradeoffs for feedback and feedforward solutions.
• Must have experience with Matlab.
• Experience in coding C/C++.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated strong problem solving and initiative.
• Excellent global communication skills.
• Good organizational skills.