Please note: We expect applications for this role to close on February 14 2025.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
As a Field Applications Engineer intern you will be working with account teams supporting our key customers.
Working together with an experienced group of storage professionals you will work with the account team to manage qualification and sustaining activites and projects. This includes:
- Taking care of customer requests and answer productrelated questions
- Updating trackers for qualification and sustaining issues
- Collaborate with customer on developing qualification plans for new products
- Manage and track qualification metrics and deliverables
- Lead periodical customer meeting to track customer qualification progress issue and initiatives
- Handson 1st level failure analysis to debug customer issue
- Work handinhand with Engineering and other crossfunctional organizations to resolve issues and provide closure response to customer
- Assist with communicating customer requests for compliance with internal teams and coordinate customer deliverables such as feature request required documents etc.
- Represent and advocate customer needs and priorities to internal teams.
Qualifications :
Required:
- Current student pursuing a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field and graduating between December 2024 and June 2025.
- Minimum of 3.0 GPA
- Interest in storage industry hard disk drives flash
- Strong teamplayer who can collaborate with colleagues
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Preference given to candidates who will not require relocation to the San Jose CA areas
- Right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case to employ you at any point in the future required (for example H1B or other employmentbased immigration case)
Preferred:
- Electrical hardware experience in academics and/or experience is highly preferred.
Skills:
- Strong technical and analytical skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and project management skills
Additional Information :
Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our nondiscrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.
Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees our company our customers and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging respect and contribution.
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Compensation & Benefits Details
- An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- If your position is nonexempt you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
- You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance you may be eligible to participate in our annual LongTerm Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to Western Digitals Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; taxadvantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D legal plan pet insurance critical illness accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Intern