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.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in roles involving technical modeling, systems analysis, or technology strategy.
• Deep understanding of HDD architecture, physics, and manufacturing processes.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with experience building and maintaining structured models.
• Strong understanding of the HDD competitive marketplace and must be able to translate understanding into competitive market and cost/value competitiveness.
• Maintain and improve upon a competitive cost analysis model and perform scenario analysis
• Ability to work effectively with ambiguous requirements and incomplete data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders or external customers
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across a variety of technical and business organizations, including engineering, operations, sourcing, marketing, finance, and sales.
• Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available with this position
• Experience working directly in storage industry/devices, hardware platforms, infrastructure systems, or large-scale technology deployments.

Benefits

• 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.