WD designs and manufactures hard disk drives and data center storage, with hiring split almost evenly between engineering and manufacturing across Asian fabs in the Philippines, Malaysia, China and Singapore. The stack (Siemens, Rockwell and Omron PLCs, JMP, Minitab, MATLAB) points to a factory floor run on statistical process control, where yield, cycle time and equipment reliability dominate internal pain points.
Notable leadership hires: Director Legal Counsel, Human Resources Director, Finance Director, Head of Social Media, Corporate Development Director
WD is a publicly traded storage company headquartered in San Jose, California, with more than 10,000 employees. It builds storage infrastructure including HDDs, helium HDDs, data center and cloud storage, and personal storage products. Its focus is serving the data demands of AI-driven and cloud workloads. Operations span the United States, India and multiple Asian manufacturing countries. Corporate systems include Workday, ServiceNow, Oracle Cloud and Workiva.
WD uses Python, C++, MATLAB, JMP, Minitab, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau and Spotfire, plus Siemens, Rockwell and Omron PLCs on the factory floor, and Workday, ServiceNow and Oracle Cloud for business systems.
WD hires in the Philippines, Malaysia, the United States, India, China and Singapore, with engineering and manufacturing roles leading demand.
Current work includes firmware for eHDD products, a sputter platform, new equipment development, new product qualification, equipment optimization and particle reduction initiatives.
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