Senior Advanced Recording Subsystem Engineer, Head Disk Electrical

SEAGATE SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SEAGATE SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS PTE. LTD. is seeking an Advanced Recording Engineer within the ARS-HDE team to advance recording technologies for future storage products.

You will contribute to HAMR and other high-density recording initiatives, develop experimental demonstrations, and collaborate with engineers across multiple disciplines to solve complex problems. The role emphasizes independent research ownership, lab work, data analysis, and developing software tools to

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong foundation in electromagnetics, applied physics, signal processing, or related engineering fundamentals.
• Programming experience in Python, C/C++, Procomm Plus.

Responsibilities

• Work on emerging recording technologies, including HAMR for Nearline storage products.
• Develop expertise in recording technologies, including ATI mitigation, advanced laser control systems, VBAR algorithms, and head-media electrical characterization.
• Contribute to research and development activities in advanced magnetic recording technologies.
• Develop proof-of-concept demonstrations to validate new recording concepts and system-level innovations.
• Conduct recording subsystem design, integration, testing, and optimization activities.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts across multiple engineering disciplines to solve challenging technical problems.
• Progressively take ownership of research projects and drive technical investigations with increasing independence.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Data analysis

Lab work

Education

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Procomm Plus

Job description

About our group:

The Seagate Design Engineering group comprises of teams across functional groups of ARS, Electrical Integration, Servo, Mechanical, Test Process and Firmware. The Advanced Recording sub-system, or ARS in short, is a highly bonded group that consists of specialists in various sub-groups of HDE (Head Disk Electrical), HDM (Head Disk Mechanical) & Channel preamp.

The Head Disk Electrical (ARS-HDE) team comprises diverse and talented professionals within the broader Advanced Recording Subsystem organization. The team is distributed across three design centers (one in Asia and two in the United States) and collaborate with global engineering teams, technology partners, and manufacturing organizations to advance recording technologies. The team program Drive Development spanning the various phase of Design, Integration, Qualification & Launch. Recording sub-system to optimize tunning to improve Head & Media matching design & verified component integration robustness. Feature core system that focused on cross generation evolving designs to boost areal density. Advanced Product Development to research new ideas to gain capacity or improve reliability & quality. ARS-HDE breath of product involvement stretches from near-term product development launch to 3~4 years ahead of product design staging.

About the role - you will:

As an Advanced Recording Engineer within the ARS-HDE team, you will contribute to the development of advanced recording technologies that support future hard disk drive products and enable continued growth in storage capacity and performance.

You will:

• Work on emerging recording technologies, including Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) for Nearline storage products.

• Develop technical expertise in recording technologies, including Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) mitigation, advanced laser control systems, Variable Bit Aspect Ratio (VBAR) algorithms, and head-media electrical characterization

• Contribute to research and development activities in advanced magnetic recording technologies.

• Develop proof-of-concept demonstrations to validate new recording concepts and system-level innovations.

• Conduct recording subsystem design, integration, testing, and optimization activities

• Contribute to technology exploration efforts aimed at enabling storage solutions beyond current generation products.

• Design and execute experiments to understand complex interactions between recording components and subsystems.

• Develop software scripts and analytical tools to automate experiments, process data, and accelerate research activities.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts across multiple engineering disciplines to solve challenging technical problems.

• Progressively take ownership of research projects and drive technical investigations with increasing independence.

About you:

• We're looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about research, innovation, and emerging technologies.

• Curious and motivated to explore complex engineering problems.

• Self-driven, capable of working independently, and motivated to take ownership of technical challenges and research projects.

• Hands-on and comfortable working with laboratory equipment, experiments, and technical investigations.

• Analytical with strong problem-solving capabilities.

• A collaborative team player and able to work effectively with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Adaptable and eager to learn new technologies and technical domains.

• Committed to continuous learning and technical excellence.

Your experience includes:

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related technical discipline.

• Strong foundation in electromagnetics, applied physics, signal processing, or related engineering fundamentals.

• Knowledge of magnetic recording, data storage systems, spintronics, photonics, optics, or semiconductor technologies is advantageous.

• Programming experience in Python, C/C++, Procomm Plus.

• Experience with experimental research, laboratory measurements, data analysis, modelling, or technical investigations.

• Familiarity with scientific methods, hypothesis-driven experimentation, and proof-of-concept development.

Location:

The Shugart site (named after Seagate’s founder, Al Shugart) is a research and design center. Easily accessible from the One-North MRT Station, many employees choose to take mass-transportation to work. Being a purpose built building, The Shugart has excellent employee recreational facilities. Take an active break at our badminton courts, table tennis tables, in-house gym and recreation rooms. We also offer classes and interest groups in photography, gardening and foreign languages, and have various on-site celebrations, and community volunteer opportunities