Jobs at Western Digital in United States, Rochester

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This position is on a team that does power characterization and performance analysis of Western Digital storage drives. The candidate will design, implement, document, and validate test automation framework improvements, test scripts, and bug fixes
• Power Characterization Test Engineers are responsible for configuring systems for test, then monitoring and analyzing drive logs, performance data, system logs, bus signals, etc., to determine test status
• Problems are then isolated, analyzed, and documented as they occur. The engineer may be responsible for developing and maintaining test scripts and automation.
• Actively participate in SAFe Agile methodology, including Daily Stand Up, Iteration Planning/Retrospective/Review, and Program Increment Planning/Retrospective
• Participate in feature demonstrations to end users and management

This is a co-op position and will last up to 8 months (January-August) based on individual university calendars.

The hourly rate for this position, based on year in school and other factors, will be $32.19-$36.11/hour.

REQUIRED:

• Students pursuing a Bachelor's degree majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related major. The ideal candidate will graduate in 2027.
• 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, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)
• Application-level scripting/programming (Perl, Tcl, Python, etc.)
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux-based systems via command line
• Solid communication skills
• Passion for problem-solving and learning new things

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s 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 non-exempt, 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 be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) 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 Long-Term 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 Digital’s 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; tax-advantaged 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 Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead a department supporting multiple customers in the customer validation organization of the SIT Lab to higher level of customer satisfaction by meeting customer expectations and commitments to the business through continuous improvement of organizational processes and operational excellence.
• Contribute to the creation of organizational plans and objectives focused on meeting customer expectations.
• Facilitate setting of department objectives consistent with the organizational goals. Assess and report progress on Department objectives.
• Stays abreast of daily operations of the department and works to remove blockers for the team as necessary.
• Responsible for department staffing and resource needs based on upcoming roadmaps and customer engagement.
• Ensure department is providing appropriate input to organizational budget development.
• Monitoring of department expenses.
• Work closely with customers and customer facing teams (Customer Technical Support, Customer Quality Management, and Marketing) to understand customer expectations for upcoming products. Capture insights and share internally.
• Evaluate and assess product readiness against customer requirements and represent the customer in new product development.
• Partner with customer through joint qualification of our Enterprise products to accelerate time to market and provide field issue support.
• Provide periodic communication to the team and management to ensure organizational alignment
• Collaborate with other SIT Lab teams to deliver on program commitments
• Build sense of trust with department members & with external organizational interfaces by providing useful feedback on a regular basis
• Enable an environment where healthy conflict is acceptable to ensure all ideas are brought forward
• Hold stakeholders, internal & external, accountable to commitments - Work across organizational boundaries to ensure actions & processes are in the best interest of the company
• Guide employees toward their career goals consistent with business imperative

REQUIRED:

• BS in an Engineering or Computer Science field
• 6+ years of leading and managing a large teams
• 3+ years experience with customer management
• Experience with financial and resource planning and forecasting

• Ability to foster strong customer relationships
• A willingness to work to consensus without impacting business & personal principles
• An understanding of customer validation to ensure the correct priority calls are made
• Strategic thinking to ensure long-term success of the team

SKILLS:

• Strong organizational leadership and communication skills at 1:1 & large group levels
• Organizational and systems thinking skills to recognize when change is required to improve efficiency & clarity
• Technical & business skills to enable quick organizational decision making

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s 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 non-exempt, 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 be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) 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 Long-Term 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 Digital’s 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; tax-advantaged 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 Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• This position is on a team that verifies the compatibility of Western Digital storage drives in enterprise customer system environments.
• System integration test engineers work closely with development engineering and customer technical support to ensure the quality of the product's design and to verify that the product works flawlessly in the customer's systems.
• System integration test engineers are responsible for configuring customer systems for test, then monitoring and analyzing performance data, drive logs, system logs, bus signals, etc. to determine test status.
• Problems are then isolated, analyzed, and documented as they occur.
• The engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining test scripts and automation.
• Responsibilities also include the creation of test schedules, writing reports, and communicating written and verbal status.

REQUIRED:

• Qualified candidates are new graduates who have earned a BS degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with graduation date between May 2024-August 2025.
• The candidate is someone who can manage impromptu test scheduling and reallocation of test resources on the fly.
• 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, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)

SKILLS:

• Knowledge of, or strong interest in, current Computer Industry systems and storage controller products and technologies.
• The candidate shall have the ability to perform detailed analysis of test data and test failures and independently investigate system hardware and software issues to determine root cause.
• Skills and/or prior experience should also include:
  • Application-level programming or scripting (Python, Java, C++, C#, etc.)
  • Ability to understand and debug interface protocols (SATA, SAS)
  • Windows and Linux server storage environments
  • Willingness to take on complex problems and investigate
  • Organization and the ability to plan ahead
  • Strong verbal and written communication
  • Comfortable with speaking about technical topics with customers and or internal entities

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s 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 non-exempt, 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 be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) 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 Long-Term 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 Digital’s 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; tax-advantaged 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 Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, implement, document, and validate test automation framework improvements, test scripts, and bug fixes (software)
• Configure and debug enterprise servers, including storage device installation, OS setup, and network configuration
• Engage with technical experts (hardware) and test engineers to understand requirements and restrictions
• Participate in feature demonstrations to internal users and management

This is a co-op position and will last up to 8 months (January-August) based on individual university calendars.

REQUIRED

• Students pursuing a Bachelor's degree majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related major. The ideal candidate will graduate in 2027.
• 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, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)
• Experience utilizing object-oriented design concepts in projects

SKILLS

• Familiarity with Linux-based systems via command line
• Passion for problem-solving and learning new things
• Solid communication skills