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// POSTED: Apr 14, 2026

Field Applications (Sales) Engineering

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Western Digital is a company that powers global innovation and technology. They are seeking a New College Graduate to join the Field Applications Engineering team in San Jose, CA, responsible for supporting key customers and managing qualification activities. 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 Skills - 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 - Past experience working with Hard Disk Drives a plus - 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 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 WD Savings 401(k) Plan Company Overview - For more than 55 years, WD has built the storage infrastructure that powers the world’s data. It was founded in 1970, and is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.westerndigital.com.
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