Junior HDD Engineer: Electronics & Systems Lab

ROHM Semiconductor

California (MO)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

ROHM Semiconductor USA is seeking an energetic and motivated new graduate as a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Engineer in Orange County, California. This on-site position involves multidisciplinary engineering to develop and support high-performance data storage devices.

The role includes bench testing, on-site customer support, system integration, design reviews, and failure analysis, with collaboration across electrical, mechanical, and software teams.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or similar
  • 0-2 years of working experience in semiconductor, electronics, electrical engineering environments
  • Electronics laboratory experience and hands-on testing experience
  • Familiarity with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters and power supplies
  • Experience with SPICE or LTSpice simulations and basic programming is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Electronic bench testing of a silicon device to verify functionality, performance, and compliance with electrical specifications
  • On-site engineering support at customer sites working directly with customer’s hardware and firmware teams
  • Support for system integration of silicon device with different product lines per customer application requirements
  • Design review meetings with customer and silicon design team
  • Investigative analysis of design issues reported by customers and/or requested by the silicon design team
  • Failure analysis, failure reproduction, root cause analysis, and report generation
  • Complete assignments per customer and silicon design team schedules
  • Building and maintaining relationships with customer’s engineering teams

Skills

Electronics lab experience
Oscilloscope & test equipment
PCB soldering & rework
LTSpice / SPICE simulations
Programming in C or Python
Analytical skills
Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Oscilloscope
Multimeter
Power supply
Function generator
LTSpice
SPICE
PCB layouts

Job description

ROHM Semiconductor USA is seeking an energetic and motivated new graduate as a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Engineer in Orange County, California. This on-site position involves multidisciplinary engineering to develop and support high-performance data storage devices.

The role includes bench testing, on-site customer support, system integration, design reviews, and failure analysis, with collaboration across electrical, mechanical, and software teams.

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