New College Graduate, Automation Developer

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®, 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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

1. To design, develop, test, and support Automation hosts & applications to fulfill business requirements
2. Responsible to communicate with various department stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze and provide suitable solution by applying concept of scalability, flexibility, simple and standard. 
3. Responsible to handle operation issues, perform root cause analysis, and apply preventive actions and measurements via IT solutions.
4. Follow SDLC phases in software development, document and execute as per requirements and specifications
5. Provide documentation and training to 24/7 L1 support team.
6. Test and support deployment of new and/or enhanced automation hosts, interface to tools & multiple MES at both Wafer factories.
7. Provide support for applications used in the factory operating in a 24/7 fast moving environment.

Candidates who will not require relocation to the San Jose, CA area will be prioritized in the recruiting process. 

REQUIRED

• Requires Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related major with graduation date between June 2024-June 2025.
• 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).
• This role may require periods of on-call, overnight work to support our 24/7 factory environment

SKILLS

Technical Skills:

• The successful candidate must have experience in using C++, C#, as well as source control, object-oriented programming. Experience with the Microsoft Visual Studio development suite and debugging multi-tier architecture is preferred.
• Knowledge of MS SQL and/or Oracle DB including queries, functions, and stored procedures.
• Understanding of SECS/GEM protocol and/or other industrial automation standards is a plus.
• Strong understanding of structured/iterative code development and documentation, and the communications and collaboration with offshore code development team that goes with it
• Exposure to or experience in leveraging ML and AI technologies to support the image analysis, edge computing, and augmented support solutions coming down the road.

Emotional Intelligence/EQ:

• Written communication skills: The successful candidate must be able to write clear requirements documents, design documents, test plans and end-user documentation.
• Verbal communication skills: The successful candidate must be able to present requirements, designs, test plans and status to peers and management. 
• Team Skills: The successful candidate must have demonstrated successes in operating in a collaborative team development environment. 

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.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 05/26/2025, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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