Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quantitative models grounded in HDD architecture, physics, component behavior, and system-level interactions.
• Ensure models reflect cost estimates, sourcing implications, technology constraints, engineering tolerances, and manufacturing flows from sourced components to final assembly and shipment.
• Create forecasts including nominal expectations, sensitivities, and scenario analysis tied to real HDD market, customer, design, and factory assumptions.
• Provide insight into how technology choices affect factory throughput, scrap, bottlenecks, test coverage, and long-term cost efficiency.
• Build bottom-up HDD cost models with component-level detail across mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and production elements.
• Coordinate competitive cost teardown, cost modeling and scenario analysis as a core responsibility.
• Interpret industry HDD technology differences and articulate resulting cost, performance, sourcing, and market advantages.
• Partner with business pricing teams, and portfolio owners to provide technical insight that enhances business and competitive analysis.
• Translate analytical outputs into actionable inputs for roadmaps, pricing strategy, warranty, and customer discussions.
• Drive data-backed discussions with engineering, operations, manufacturing, and technology strategy teams.