Summer 2025 Intern

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

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.

The internship covers the following activities: 

• 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 agraduation 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.