$8,000,000 - $9,500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on ensuring product quality and reliability for new HDD products from the planning and development stages through to mass production. The role is based at Western Digital's main HDD development site in Fujisawa.
What you'll do
- Evaluate and certify specification suitability and customer quality requirements for new HDD products.
- Develop evaluation methods and test programs for new technologies and functions.
- Conduct various tests and data analyses to improve HDD quality.
- Understand product defects and issues during evaluation and propose countermeasures.
- Develop evaluation programs.
- Analyze evaluation data.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Experience in program development (Python/SQL).
- Business level Japanese and English.
- 6+ years of experience in product testing, validation, or lab engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with lab instrumentation and test equipment.
- Knowledge of reliability testing, environmental testing, and validation standards.
- Experience with data analysis tools (Python, SQL, R).
- Strong understanding of failure analysis techniques and quality processes.
Skills: product quality, reliability, validation activities, failure analysis, quality processes
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
437
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$158k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Western Digital | All employers we track in this specialty (437 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 437 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 171 | 9611 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 55 d (−12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: product quality, reliability, validation activities, failure analysis, quality processes
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 72 open roles · median 148 d
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 38 d
- Analog Devices · 22 open roles · median 47 d
- onsemi · 22 open roles · median 69 d
- Applied Materials · 18 open roles · median 75 d
- Renesas Electronics · 18 open roles · median 57 d
How we counted: 437 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 2 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.