Applications Engineer - Early Career

Responsibilities

• Drive all technical aspects of our customer qualification engagements
• Replicate, analyze, and develop solutions in concert with internal engineering teams to address customer issues
• Run tests in customer environment to validate drive/system compatibility
• Assist in post-qualification customer technical issues
• Create and present technical information to internal teams
• Work with customer account team to solidify feedback into future product requirements
• Coordinate activities of other organizations to ensure customer deliverables meet the customer expectations
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity, quality, and decision‑making in daily work (e.g., analysis, documentation, communication, prioritization)
• Uses AI as a thought partner, not just an automation tool—applies judgment, validation, and domain expertise to AI‑generated outputs
• Willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI‑enabled workflows aligned with business goals

• You will have a demonstrated ability to work across multiple organizations to achieve deadlines and customer satisfaction
• You will have a high level of personal follow through on commitments
• Ability to work flexible hours to support our worldwide customers, factories, and design centers
• Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills that develop trust between Seagate and its customers
• Demonstrated passion for continuous improvement
• Demonstrated experience testing and resolving concurrent, complex highly technical issues
• Project management and tracking experience

• Experience dealing with external customer or supplier
• Programming experience
• Experience with SATA, SAS, and NVMe interfaces and bus analyzers
• Storage system level experience
• Knowledge of quality systems and methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, data science/analytics, or related discipline or equivalent experience

Shakopee, United States

None

Estimated base salary range $66,000 - $77,000

Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees, including a 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, paid time off including 12 holidays, flexible time off, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

Seagate is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, military and veteran status, or other status protected by applicable law. Seagate will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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