Senior Engineer, Industrial Engineering - AI/ML/Analytics

Summary

Join Western Digital and contribute your expertise to our supply chain team. This role involves owning and improving supply chain systems, designing AI-based models to solve business problems, and building analytics tools. You will lead workshops, guide cross-functional teams, and conduct thorough testing. The position requires a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or an MBA in Supply Chain, along with 1-3 years of relevant experience and strong AI/ML knowledge. Western Digital offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including short-term and long-term incentives, comprehensive health insurance, paid time off, and various other perks.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in both Industrial Engineering or Supply chain and Operations or MBA in Supply Chain
• Understanding and Implementation of supply chain planning systems and process
• 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
• Effective interpersonal skills, ability to influence others, drive new initiatives and way of thinking in the organization
• Understanding future business strategies and directions to implement Process and Systems
• Strong understanding of supply chain concepts and experience in supply chain planning

Responsibilities

• Own and drive various Supply chain systems and process improvement– Example own master planning system and process and drive all changes , enhancements and projects related to that
• 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, proof of technology. Experience in process re-engineering and make them more agile to address the dynamic business needs
• Lead workshops to drive testing, requirement gathering, solution discussion etc
• Help and guide cross functional teams teams in planning activities like factory builds , order promising etc
• Ability to do Trade-off analysis on different levers in Supply Chain
• Ability to collaborate with business partners to document business requirements and Business Process
• Analyze business requirements to create use cases and testing documentation
• Lead efforts to translate functional requirements into solutions, manage scope and estimated deliverables in all phases of the project
• 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 including workshops to conduct the tests
• Identify Gaps in the current Solutions and Project Manage the implementation of these Gaps working with IT
• Carrying out data and system analysis to identify technical debt/gaps and develop to-be architecture to provide scalability and flexibility to accommodate growing business needs
• Driving new solutions that can be implemented cross-functionally
• Developing key metrics around business impact and user acceptance

Benefits

• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• 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
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan