Embedded Firmware Engineer - High-Performance HDDs

Western Digital; Selangor; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital in Malaysia's Petaling Jaya campus is seeking an Software Development Engineer (Embedded) to design, develop, and test firmware for next-generation eHDD products. You will work in an Agile team with opportunities to learn across disciplines and collaborate with teams in the US and Japan.

The role emphasizes hands-on firmware development, data structures, and algorithms using C/C++ and Python, with a focus on high performance and reliability in enterprise storage systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics Engineering or related field.
• Knowledge in C, Object-oriented programming (e.g. C++, Python), Data Structure, Algorithms. Multi-threaded programming.
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies, complex code.
• 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 significant technical investigations from problem statement to conclusions.
• Creates design documents pertinent to the various phases of firmware development.
• Devise strategies for in-depth functionality and compatibility testing of complex drive features.

Skills

C programming

C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Multithreading

OOP concepts

Education

Bachelor or Master in Computer Science or Computer/Electronics Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Embedded toolchains

Job description

Western Digital in Malaysia's Petaling Jaya campus is seeking an Software Development Engineer (Embedded) to design, develop, and test firmware for next-generation eHDD products. You will work in an Agile team with opportunities to learn across disciplines and collaborate with teams in the US and Japan.

The role emphasizes hands-on firmware development, data structures, and algorithms using C/C++ and Python, with a focus on high performance and reliability in enterprise storage systems.