Summer 2026 Intern - Field Applications (Sales) Engineering

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, and WD_BLACK™.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

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

Job Description

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. 

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.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Currently pursuing a BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

• 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) 

Preferred: 

• Electrical hardware experience in academics and/or experience is highly preferred.  

Skills: 

• Strong technical and analytical skills 

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 

• Excellent interpersonal and project management skills 

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply wi