Summer 2027 Hardware Engineering Intern

This posting supports current and anticipated early-career hiring needs. Applying lets our recruiting team consider you for opportunities that fit your qualifications, preferences, and availability. An immediate opening or interview is not guaranteed.

You will have the chance to work with teams in Colorado Springs, Irvine, Longmont, Fremont, Rochester, and San Jose.

ASIC Engineering

Design the silicon behind the future of data storage. As an ASIC Engineer, you will help create custom chips for next-generation hard disk drives (HDDs), contributing to digital design, verification, simulation, and optimization alongside experienced engineers.

• Design and verify ASIC architectures and digital logic
• Build simulations and validate complex hardware designs
• Support the ASIC development lifecycle, from architecture through synthesis, place-and-route, and timing closure
• Optimize performance, power, and reliability
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, and systems engineering teams

Technologies: ASIC Design, RTL, Verilog/SystemVerilog, Digital Logic, Verification, Simulation, Timing Analysis, Low-Power Design

Hardware Development Engineering

As a Hardware Development Engineer, you will help improve the technologies that make modern data storage faster, more reliable, and higher capacity by designing, prototyping, validating, and refining hardware.

• Design and develop electronic hardware and magnetic recording systems
• Create validation strategies and automated test solutions
• Perform reliability, stress, and performance testing
• Analyze circuit boards, processors, sensors, and other hardware components
• Improve products from prototype through manufacturing

Technologies: Electronics, PCB Design, Signal Integrity, Hardware Validation, Reliability Engineering, Test Engineering, Data Analysis

Firmware Engineering

As a Firmware Engineer, you will develop the embedded software that controls advanced storage devices, building reliable, high-performance firmware at the intersection of hardware and software.

• Design, develop, and debug embedded firmware
• Write software in C, C++, Assembly, and other low-level languages
• Integrate firmware with analog and digital hardware
• Troubleshoot hardware-software interactions
• Improve system performance, functionality, and reliability

Technologies: Embedded Systems, C, C++, Assembly, RTOS, Hardware Interfaces, Firmware Validation, Debugging

Systems Design & Integration Engineering

As a Systems Design & Integration Engineer, you will combine hardware, firmware, and software into reliable, high-performing storage systems, solving integration challenges so every subsystem works together.

• Define system requirements and technical specifications
• Integrate hardware, firmware, and software components
• Coordinate subsystem development across engineering teams
• Troubleshoot complex system-level issues
• Improve product performance, compatibility, and reliability

Technologies: Systems Engineering, Integration, Validation, Root Cause Analysis, Product Development, Cross-Functional Engineering

Mechanical Design Engineering

As a Mechanical Design Engineer, you will design the precision mechanical systems behind advanced storage products, helping create solutions that are innovative, reliable, and manufacturable from concept through production.

• Design mechanical components, assemblies, and packaging
• Develop prototypes and evaluate new concepts
• Perform engineering analysis and design validation
• Conduct testing to improve performance and reliability
• Partner with manufacturing teams to prepare products for production

Technologies: CAD, Mechanical Design, Product Development, Prototype Testing, Design Validation, Manufacturing Engineering

Equipment Engineering

As an Equipment Engineer, you will optimize the advanced manufacturing equipment used to build storage technology, improving equipment performance, reliability, and production processes.

• Install, upgrade, and optimize manufacturing equipment
• Improve equipment uptime, reliability, and process performance
• Investigate equipment failures and implement corrective actions
• Develop preventive maintenance strategies
• Partner with manufacturing and process engineers to drive continuous improvement

Technologies: Automation, Manufacturing Engineering, Preventive Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Continuous Improvement

System-on-Chip (SoC) Engineering

As a System-on-Chip (SoC) Engineer, you will help develop the intelligent controllers that power advanced storage products, working across hardware, firmware, and silicon to design, integrate, verify, and validate SoC solutions.

• Design, integrate, and validate SoC components and subsystems
• Develop and verify digital logic, interfaces, and IP blocks
• Support simulation, debugging, and hardware bring-up
• Analyze system performance, power, timing, and reliability
• Collaborate with ASIC, firmware, hardware, and systems engineering teams

Technologies: SoC Architecture, RTL, Verilog/SystemVerilog, FPGA, Digital Design, Verification, Embedded Systems, Hardware Validation, Performance Optimization

Early Career Development

This role is part of WD's early career development program, which is designed for people early in their professional careers. Participants receive foundational training through structured onboarding, mentorship, and a curated development curriculum. The responsibilities are typically aligned with candidates who have approximately 0 to 2+ years of relevant professional experience, though candidates of all experience levels are encouraged to apply.