Early Careers Talent - Field Applications (Sales) Engineering

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

15h

About The Position

Western Digital is seeking a New College Graduate to join the Field Applications Engineering team in San Jose, CA. The candidate will be responsible for 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 activities and projects. The ideal candidate should have a strong engineering background, along with a desire to work externally with some of Western Digital’s largest customers. The candidate’s skillset should include a data analytics background, good project management skills, strong verbal and written communication, and the ability to thrive in a team environment. Western Digital will not offer future visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates who are based in the San Jose, CA area will be prioritized. This position is part of our Early Career program at WD. Our Early Career program is designed to support individuals beginning their professional career by providing the foundational training through a structured onboarding, mentorship, and development curriculum.

Requirements

• Current student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related engineering field with a recent graduation date
• Interest in working in a customer-facing engineering setting
• Academic or professional experience in hardware/firmware failure analysis
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, C/C++
• Data science/ analytics skillset (preferably in Python, SAS, JMP)
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work in a cross-functional team setting.
• Good project management, problem-solving, analytical, and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Past experience working with Hard Disk Drives a plus

Responsibilities

• Taking care of customer requests and answer product-related 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
• Hands-on 1st level failure analysis to debug customer issue
• Work hand-in-hand with Engineering and other cross-functional 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

Benefits

• 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 WD Savings 401(k) Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level