Summer 2025,Co-Op, Software Engineer (Testing)

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.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest growth organizations in the world. From energizing the most competitive gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

We create environments for you to thrive. The growing diversity of data creates an exponential number of new possibilities – for the world, our company and you. You’ll be part of a team driving the innovations necessary to outpace new demands and challenges everywhere data lives, from sensors to mobile devices to the cloud. We’ve only started to scratch the surface of what data can do. You can help unlock its full potential.

The Western Digital Enterprise System Integration Group is seeking a student engineer to work in our System Integration Test (SIT) Lab located in Rochester, MN. The SIT Lab is a dynamic environment where test engineers work closely with drive development engineers and our customers’ engineers during the process of bringing a drive to market. The SIT Lab supports the full Western Digital hard disk and solid-state drive lines as well as Western Digital-branded products, software, and storage solutions.

Students work as part of a global engineering team responsible for the integration of Western Digital products, including hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and software, into our customers' environments, mentored and guided by experienced Western Digital engineers. Our group in particular debugs and validates electrical and logical protocol compatibility between our products and computer systems from our customers, creates customer-facing software tools to manage and debug Western Digital products, and provides internal software infrastructure for our laboratory. Students are responsible for assisting Western Digital engineers in executing measurements, documenting measurement results, isolating, and debugging product compatibility problems, and developing software. Co-op/internship assignments are of the same type as those of our regular engineers, offering students the greatest exposure to life as a regular Western Digital employee. Interest in extensive hands-on computer and laboratory equipment use is expected. This is an 6-month Co-op position.

Qualifications

Required:

• Be in your junior or senior year pursuing a BS degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Application-level programming or scripting using Python
• Windows and UNIX / Linux server storage environments
• Strong verbal and written communication

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 regulation