Channel Development Sr Staff Engineer (Shakopee, MN, US) bei Careers at Seagate | Seagate Jobs

About our group:

The Advanced Recording Subsystem organization is responsible for integrating heads, media, preamps, and channels into hard disk drives. This includes defining recording subsystem architecture, specifying electrical and magnetic component requirements, designing system features, validating and integrating these components and features into new HDD products, and ensuring successful product ramps.

About the role - you will:

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on innovation to advance Seagate’s recording subsystem technology. Responsibilities include:

• Designing channel-enabled architectures and technology bundles that drive disruptive capacity, performance, and reliability gains.
• Identifying and developing new channel detection technologies to maximize capacity relative to theoretical limits.
• Exploring the migration of physical recording channels and creating new detection, optimization, and adaptation techniques.
• Partnering with channel vendors to evaluate and integrate new technologies.
• Developing physics-informed methods to optimize channel tuning in factory processes for HAMR recording systems.
• Guiding head, media, and drive teams on effective channel usage for design feedback and screening.
• Conducting bench testing with drive mules to demonstrate feasibility of new channel-enabled technologies.
• Creating and applying channel models with synthesized or real waveforms to validate new concepts.
• Contributing to Seagate’s IP portfolio through invention disclosures, patents, publications, and white papers.

About you:

• You are an innovative and self-motivated worker driven by curiosity.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You have a reputation for honesty, integrity, showing respect toward others, and effectively collaborating within a diverse team.
• Able to provide technical leadership and mentoring across organizational boundaries.

Your experience includes:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field and 12+ years of experience; or 8 years of experience and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• HDD recording channels, including signal processing, information theory, modulation codes, error correction codes, equalization, and timing recovery.
• Magnetic recording physics, including head, media, preamp, and channel interactions.
• Drive bench testing and analysis.
• Modeling of the recording system and/or channel blocks.
• Signal and noise analysis techniques including PRBS sequences, Volterra series, di-pulse extraction and other advanced statistical methods.
• Experience with leading cross-functional teams to solve high-impact high-visibility problems.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $144,164.80 - $210,107.04. The individual salary is based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees, including, but not limited to, eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, short-and long-term disability, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, health savings account, dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts. Seagate also offers paid time off, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave. The benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year and may differ depending on work location.

Location:

Our Shakopee campus is located 25 minutes southwest of Minneapolis in a setting with a rural vibe – it overlooks a horse racing track and stables, yet it has great entertainment venues close by as well. With wide-open spaces, the campus has plenty of space for running, biking, shooting some hoops or playing volleyball over lunch. If working out is your thing, the on-site fully equipped fitness center hosts wellness programs, tournaments and group workouts. Hungry? Seagate offers an on-site café with freshly sourced foods and specialty coffees, or if you prefer, drive to one of many restaurants just minutes away.

Location: Shakopee, United States
Travel: Up to 10%