Channel Development Sr. Staff Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026.
About our group:
The Advanced Recording Subsystem organization is responsible for integrating heads, media, preamps, and channels into hard disk drives. This includes defining recording subsystem architecture, specifying electrical and magnetic component requirements, designing system features, validating and integrating these components and features into new HDD products, and ensuring successful product ramps.
About the role - you will:
As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on innovation to advance Seagate’s recording subsystem technology. Responsibilities include:
- Design channel-enabled architectures and component technology bundles that provide disruptive drive capacity, performance, and reliability gains.
- For the current physical recording channel, identify channel detection technologies that harvest opportunities relative to the theoretical capacity entitlement.
- Understand the future migration of the physical recording channel and develop novel channel detection, optimization, and adaptation techniques that exploit the changing characteristics.
- Work with channel vendors to specify and evaluate new channel technologies.
- Develop time-efficient physics-informed methods for tuning the channel in the factory process to accommodate the sources of variation in the HAMR recording system.
- Provide guidance to head, media, and drive teams on how to use the R/W channel for design feedback and screening.
- Work as a hands-on practitioner to perform bench testing with drive mules to demonstrate the feasibility of new channel-enabled system technologies.
- Create and use channel models that can be used with synthesized or real waveforms to demonstrate the feasibility of new channel-enabled system technologies.
- Contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, journal articles, and/or white papers.
- Perform drive level HAMR recording experiments to clarify the paths to ADC growth.
About you:
- You are an innovative and self-motivated worker driven by curiosity
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- You have a reputation for honesty, integrity, showing respect toward others, and effectively collaborating within a diverse team
- You are a recognized subject matter expert that can provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries
Your experience includes:
- Communications channel expertise, including signal processing, information theory, modulation codes, error correction codes, equalization, and timing recovery.
- Queuing theory and/or AI expertise a plus.
- Magnetic recording knowledge a plus (recording physics including head, media, preamp, and channel interactions)
- Lab data acquisition and analysis instruments such as oscilloscopes, digitizers, GPUs, and spectrum analyzers.
- Experience in programming languages (Cuda, C++, Fortran, Python)
- Demonstrated team leadership and organization skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field (i.e. Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Computer Engineering, Materials, Physics, or Information Technology) and 12+ years of experience or master’s degree in the same and 8+ years’ experience or PhD and 5+ years’ experience or equivalent experience and education.
Location:
Our Longmont product-design campus is nestled against the foothills with exceptional views of the Rocky Mountains. Here at work, you can grab breakfast and lunch in the on-site cafeteria or get an afternoon espresso, prepared by a professional barista. Our 1,500+ employees enjoy an active on-site experience from sporting activities (get in a few laps at lunch on our 1-mile walking path around campus, play ping-pong or volleyball, or stop in our 24- hour fitness center for a group or individual workout) to community service and many employee resource groups including Pride! Women’s Leadership Network and a Young Professionals Network.
The estimated base salary range for this position is $132,974.00 - $176,196.00. The individual salary is based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees, including, but not limited to, , eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, short-and long-term disability, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, health savings account, dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts. Seagate also offers paid time off, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave. The benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year and may differ depending on work location.
Location: Longmont, United States
Travel: Up to 10%