Summer Co-Op - Software Engineer

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 ™.

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.

• Support and maintain a hardware abstraction layer and special purpose engineering commands related to channel hardware applications
• Firmware integration of vendor channels to optimize HDD read/write performance and other necessary magnetic recording functions
• Develop validation scripts to be applied as developer and debug tools
• Create test scripts to be deployed within a Continuous Integration environment
• Follow Agile methodologies and have a willingness to become a contributing member of a scrum team that supports Enterprise level HDDs
• Plan, perform, summarize, and present findings with respect to channel verification, channel operations, technical experiments, and failure analysis results
• Be a reference for basic read/write channel functionality and applications
• Work in concert with suppliers’ technical support teams and WDC internal product teams
• Provide problem solving, algorithm design, risk mitigation, and complexity analysis to support the channel applications within drive firmware
• Work with internal product development teams and external suppliers to provide firmware and test script abstractions of the channel hardware into HDDs on various platforms
• Provide firmware and tools support to integrate new channel features, perform failure analysis, and evaluate performance for an advanced digital signal processing chip used for Hard Disk Drive (HDD) magnetic recording

• Working towards degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Proficiency with C/C++ and Python programming languages
• Basic knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Willingness to learn basic signal processing concepts and rapidly learn new technologies
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well within a team
• Self-motivated with an aptitude for continuous improvement
• Persistence on problem/issue resolution

• Experience with embedded firmware and hardware / software applications
• Proficiency with TCL programming languages
• Strong knowledge of HDD functionality and applications
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes and their applications

• Strong statistical analysis skills

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…