Western Digital Summer Media Lubricant Development Engineering Intern 

United States, California, San Jose 

219236841

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

As a Media Lubricant Development Engineer – Summer Internship, you will be part of the Media lubricant team responsible for development of next generation lubricants.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to advanced lubricant designs to support media tribology for next generation media and drive development, including HAMR.
• Work with media process teams to optimize the media tribology design
• Investigate interactions between lubricant and carbon surface under various stress conditions, and improve tribology performance, thermal performance, chemical and particle robustness of the interface
• Work with lubricant vendors to develop and deliver new molecule structure and functional groups
• Conduct experiments and develop new test methodologies to understand media tribology issues
• Identify fundamental tribology failure mechanisms and propose effective modifications to improve robustness.

Required:

• Ph.D. candidate in in chemistry, surface chemistry, material science, tribology or related field.
• Requires experience and a strong background in analytical chemistry, surface chemistry, polymer chemistry, and tribology.
• In-depth understanding of analytical techniques, design of experiments, and statistical process control
• Great communication and presentation skills are a must
• Ability to approach problem solving in an organized manner

Preferred:

• Preferred knowledge and experiences: HPLC, Mass spectrometry, quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), and surface analysis techniques

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 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.