Senior Engineer, Industrial Engineering - AI/ML/Analytics

Western Digital - Milpitas, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Milpitas, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Engineer in Industrial Engineering at Western Digital focuses on enhancing supply chain systems and processes through AI/ML and analytics. This role involves driving improvements, developing AI-based models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet business objectives. The engineer will manage projects from design to implementation, ensuring alignment with business needs and measurable ROI.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive various Supply chain systems and process improvement.
• Design and develop AI-based models to solve business problems in supply chain.
• Design and build analytics tools to help supply chain and operations short and long term objectives.
• Conduct proof of concept and proof of technology.
• Lead workshops to drive testing, requirement gathering, and solution discussions.
• Help and guide cross-functional teams in planning activities like factory builds and order promising.
• Perform trade-off analysis on different levers in Supply Chain.
• Collaborate with business partners to document business requirements and processes.
• Analyze business requirements to create use cases and testing documentation.
• Translate functional requirements into solutions and manage project scope and deliverables.
• Project management responsibility for all deliverables in all stages including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration.
• Understand existing business processes and technology to develop the 'to be' and align to create measurable business ROI.
• Drive test planning for functional, integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Identify gaps in current solutions and manage the implementation of these gaps with IT.
• Carry out data and system analysis to identify technical debt/gaps and develop to-be architecture.
• Drive new solutions that can be implemented cross-functionally.
• Develop key metrics around business impact and user acceptance.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain and Operations, or MBA in Supply Chain.
• Understanding and implementation of supply chain planning systems and processes.
• 1-3 years of work experience in Supply Chain, Operations, and Project Management.
• Good knowledge of AI/ML and experience in creating models based on AI/ML.

Nice-to-haves

• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to influence others.
• Understanding future business strategies and directions to implement processes and systems.
• Strong understanding of supply chain concepts and experience in supply chain planning.

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
• Voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan