AI Application Engineer, Product Engineering
Western Digital2 days ago
Shenzhen, ChinaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Develop LLM-powered AI agents for HDD manufacturing data analysis.
- Build and evaluate agentic workflows integrating data pipelines, data analysis, and professional insights, forecasts, and reports.
- Package data platforms, analysis tools, and engineering systems into applications, APIs, MCP servers, or other tools callable by AI agents.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate domain-specific manufacturing problems into practical technical solutions.
- Develop modular software, debug and test applications, and build APIs using Python.
- Work with manufacturing operations and progressively take ownership of production analysis scenarios.
Requirements
- Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 0–2 years of relevant professional work experience; recent graduates without full-time experience are welcome.
- Hands-on experience in AI application development, including AI-powered tools, LLM API integrations, or AI-agent workflows, gained through academic projects, internships, research, or professional work.
- Strong Python programming skills, including modular software development, debugging, testing, and API development.
- Familiarity with at least one additional programming language such as Java, C++, Go, or TypeScript.
- Familiarity with FastAPI, Docker, Git, and Linux.
- Good English communication and teamwork skills in a global, cross-functional engineering environment.
- Preferred experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, function or tool calling, LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, RAG, and agent orchestration.
- Preferred data analysis and engineering experience with databases, SQL, Pandas, PySpark, or similar technologies, including large-scale data analysis.
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About Western Digital
Western Digital designs and manufactures data storage devices and platforms, including hard disk drives and solid-state drives, for consumer electronics, enterprises, and hyperscale data centers. The public company, founded in 1970 and headquartered in San Jose, sells under the Western Digital and SanDisk brands through OEM and retail channels, and supplies cloud platforms and PC markets worldwide.