Failure Analysis Manager (Job ID: 20224)

West

• 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 r...