Embedded Firmware Engineer – Early Career Program

OpenTalent; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 45,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital (WD) invites applications for an embedded firmware engineer as part of its Early Career program. This role focuses on designing, developing, and validating firmware for eHDD products, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver robust solutions.

You will work with C/C++, Python, and data structures, gaining hands‑on experience in Agile environments and CI practices while contributing to data storage technologies across Windows and Linux platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Knowledge in C/C++, object‑oriented programming, Python, data structures, algorithms.
• Capable of quickly learning new firmware, hardware, systems, tools, and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, integrate and maintain quality firmware for eHDD using best practices like unit test, CI and Agile methodologies.
• Design and implementation of data structures, software algorithms, data path, and drivers for hardware cores using latest standards C++ and Python.
• Participate in Scrum & Agile processes to bring up new hardware and develop embedded firmware for data storage products.
• Collaborate and design solutions for challenging yet unique problems across hardware and software platforms, including servers, RAID, and various operating systems (Windows and Linux).
• Participate in planning and coordinating significant technical investigations from problem statements to conclusions.
• Creates design documents pertinent to the various phases of firmware development.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

OO programming

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electronics Engineering

Job description

Western Digital (WD) invites applications for an embedded firmware engineer as part of its Early Career program. This role focuses on designing, developing, and validating firmware for eHDD products, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver robust solutions.

You will work with C/C++, Python, and data structures, gaining hands‑on experience in Agile environments and CI practices while contributing to data storage technologies across Windows and Linux platforms.