Job Description
Western Digital, the premiere producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), is seeking a scientist with experience performing XRD and XRR on thin-film materials. Magnetic sensor, writer, and disk development are critical to the advancement of data storage. Magnetic media used to store information in hard drives is composed of stacks of thin films ranging from angstroms to tens of nanometers in thickness. Electromagnetic HDD head technology also relies on thin-film stacks, and are produced in wafer fabs applying the same processing techniques used in the semiconductor industry. The primary purpose of our work is to characterize these thin-films in support of the next generation of HDD technology.
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This position is located in our world-class Analytical Sciences Laboratory in San Jose, California.
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