Vice President Controls and Recording Engineering

About Our Group

The Controls and Recording Engineering organization is responsible for transforming recording-system and servo innovations into product-ready capabilities that enable Seagate's future storage roadmap. As a key part of Design Engineering, this global team serves as the critical bridge between advanced technology development and product integration, ensuring new technologies are mature, validated, and ready for successful deployment.

The Controls and Recording Engineering organization is responsible for transforming recording-system and servo innovations into product-ready capabilities that enable Seagate's future storage roadmap. As a key part of Design Engineering, this global team serves as the critical bridge between advanced technology development and product integration, ensuring new technologies are mature, validated, and ready for successful deployment.

The organization brings together expertise in Advanced Recording Subsystems, Controls Engineering, Servo Systems, Heads and Media, Channel Electronics, ASICs, Firmware, and Test Engineering to deliver integrated solutions that drive capacity growth, product performance, and reliability across Seagate's portfolio.

• Define the strategic direction, technology portfolio, resource plans, and investment priorities for Controls and Recording Engineering in alignment with product and capacity roadmaps.
• Lead the staging and maturation of new recording and controls technologies for current and future product generations.
• Establish technology readiness criteria, ownership models, risk assessments, and integration plans to support successful product transitions.
• Build and lead focused cross-functional teams that accelerate learning, validate system-level performance, and prepare technologies for production deployment.
• Drive coordinated execution across recording, servo, heads and media, channel, preamp, ASIC, firmware, mechanical, reliability, manufacturing, and test engineering organizations.
• Develop and implement advanced engineering methodologies leveraging modeling, simulation, experimentation, data analytics, automation, and AI-enabled engineering tools.
• Generate tactical and strategic capacity growth projections and technology roadmaps that support long-term business planning.
• Provide executive-level visibility into technical maturity, integration risks, roadmap tradeoffs, and key decision points.
• Lead the design and integration of recording and controls architectures for current and next-generation storage products.
• Oversee development of servo format architectures, servo electronics integration, controller design, advanced control features, and subsystem optimization.
• Drive component and subsystem integration across suspensions, heads, media, preamps, channels, and related technologies.
• Maintain relentless focus on areal density growth, product reliability, manufacturing scalability, and performance improvement.
• Build a high-performing global organization through talent development, succession planning, leadership growth, and technical capability advancement.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusion, collaboration, and technical excellence consistent with Seagate values.

• You are a systems thinker who effectively connects component physics, subsystem interactions, product requirements, manufacturing capabilities, and business outcomes.
• You are a technically credible leader who uses data, evidence, and sound engineering judgment to prioritize investments and drive results.
• You excel at leading through complexity, ambiguity, and technical uncertainty.
• You are an outstanding communicator who creates alignment and shared ownership across global organizations.
• You demonstrate…