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# Director Firmware Engineering

- **Company:** Western Digital Corporation
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $198,500.0 - $264,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Microarchitecture, Firmware, Toolchain, Instruction Set Architecture
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=00e9cdf74c1f02b6

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent. Masters degree or relevant certification desirable. PhD or specialist or relevant certification with platform architecture highly desirable
 * 10+ years of experience in embedded architecture and development.
 * 10+ years experience as a Embedded/Firmware technical leader

SKILLS

 * Demonstrates a strong leadership and commitment to the result
 * Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills (including presentation skills) across Worldwide engineers in English

## Description

* Works closely with all stakeholders in the implementation of HDD real time motion and parameter control microarchitecture, instruction set architecture, firmware architecture & tool chain associated with Business situation
 * Works closely with all stakeholders in the implementation of HDD firmware related to servo control associated with Business situation
 * Participates in Team meeting and leads hardware, firmware & associated tooling development with enough communication for geographically distributed international development team to support business and technical objectives
 * Define the hardware, firmware & associated tools designs together with stakeholders and development teams
 * Negotiate with stakeholders about priority
 * Ensures strong execution of identified hardware, firmware & associated tools strategy