Western Digital Summer Intern Failure Analysis Engineering 

United States, California, San Jose 

449430991

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

Join our dynamic and collaborative team to support WD failure analysis requests from our customers. As an intern on the Failure Analysis team, you will play a crucial role in defining and documenting requirements for Machine Learning/AI projects, as well as assisting in their implementation. You will work closely with the local Failure Analysis (FA) team and other departments to drive project progress. This automation aims to optimize FA processes and improve turnaround times. Additionally, you will review existing failure analysis report formats to facilitate the automated generation of FA reports, which are essential for communicating key lab data and failure causes to customers, field application engineers, quality managers, manufacturing, and development teams.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and document requirements and business value for the Machine Learning / Large Language Models (LLM) / AI FA Summary Report Generation project, and assist in its implementation. The goal is to create FA summaries from detailed FA information, optimizing FA work and improving turnaround times.
• Collaborate with the local FA team and other departments to drive project progress.
• Review existing failure analysis report formats to serve as references for automating the generation of FA reports.
• Assist with additional Machine Learning / AI projects as they become available.
• Communicate results and status updates effectively with management and team members.
• Participate in resolving product and customer issues by providing electrical analysis and meaningful insights.

REQUIRED

• Current students seeking a bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, data science, or related field with a graduation date between December 2025 and June 2026.
• 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)
• Candidates who will not require relocation to the San Jose, CA will be preferred
• Knowledge and experience with Data Analytics, Python, C++, SQL, and LLM (Large Language Models)

SKILLS

• Proven problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Leadership skills
• Effective at multi-tasking, organization and time management
• Self-motivated
• Demonstrates patience, confidence, and composure
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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 participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term 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 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.