Summer 2026 Intern - Field Applications (Sales) Engineering

Western Digital•San Jose, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

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 activities and projects. This includes: 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.

Requirements

Current student, pursuing a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and graduating between December 2026 and June 2027.
Minimum of 3.0 GPA
Interest in storage industry and working with hard-disk drives
Strong team-player 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, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)

Nice To Haves

Electrical hardware experience in academics and/or experience is highly preferred.
Strong technical and analytical skills
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Excellent interpersonal and project management skills

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

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
the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan