Summer 2025 Intern, Operations Research & Analytics Engineering

Company Description

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®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

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

Western Digital is seeking a summer intern to work within our Operations Research & Analytics team.

The Advanced Analytics Office at Western Digital leads an operations optimization to enhance production and supply chain efficiency, leveraging an internally developed analytics platform. The platform has been implemented at various factories globally and added significant business value.

During this internship, you will be a part of a dynamic team working closely with factory operations, and you will develop operations research and analytics solutions, solving factory/supply-chain capacity planning and optimization problems. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a team that's instrumental in Western Digital’s Industry 4.0 journey. We are changing the way how analytics is used across global operations sites.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Collecting information about the optimization problem, understand the related current practices and the desired solution.
• Defining and implementing an optimization (MILP, MINLP, CP) model, and implement it in Python language. 
• Conducting numerical experiments with the model(s) and present the results to the key project stakeholders. 

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• Currently seeking a BS or MS degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or a related field with a graduation date between December 2025-June 2026.
• Familiarity with industrial engineering concepts, e.g., WIP management, production control, manufacturing process and cycle time etc. 
• Familiarity with declarative modeling tools (e.g., IBM CPLEX, FICO Xpress, Google-OR tools etc.)  
• Ongoing MS studies in Industrial Engineering, Applied Math, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field. 
• Good abstraction skills and problem-solving ability.  

SKILLS

• Hands-on Python programming skills. 
• Skills in writing basic database queries for SQL platforms. 
• Good analytics skills in the context of factory optimization, leveraging OR techniques e.g., linear and integer programming, constraint programming, nonlinear optimization. 

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee 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 with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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