Summer 2024 Intern, Operations Research Engineering

Firm Description

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Job Description

Western Digital’s Superior Analytics Workplace leads an inside manufacturing facility platform improvement that permits real-time analytics and optimization of manufacturing facility processes. The platform has been carried out at numerous factories globally and added important enterprise worth. In the course of the internship you can be part of a dynamic crew working intently with manufacturing facility operations, and you’ll develop operations analysis and analytics options, fixing manufacturing facility capability planning and optimization issues. It is a distinctive alternative to be part of a crew that is instrumental in Western Digital’s Business 4.0 journey. We’re altering the best way how analytics is used throughout world operations websites. The internship covers the next actions:

• Gather details about a manufacturing facility capability planning drawback, perceive the associated present practices and the specified resolution.
• Outline and implement an optimization (MILP, MINLP) mannequin, and implement it in Python language.
• Conduct numerical experiments with the mannequin(s) and current the outcomes to the important thing venture stakeholders.

{Qualifications}

• Presently enrolled in a graduate program associated to Pc Science, Information Science, Operations Administration, Manufacturing, or one other associated area with most popular commencement date between December 2024-June 2025
• Familiarity with industrial engineering ideas, e.g., WIP administration, manufacturing management, manufacturing course of and cycle time and so forth.
• Good analytics expertise within the context of manufacturing facility optimization, leveraging OR strategies e.g., linear and integer programming, constraint programming, nonlinear optimization.
• Fingers-on Python programming expertise.
• Expertise in writing fundamental database queries for SQL platforms.
• Familiarity with declarative modeling instruments (e.g., IBM CPLEX, FICO Xpress, Google-OR instruments and so forth.)
• Ongoing research in Industrial Engineering, Utilized Math, Operations Analysis, Pc Science, or a associated area.
• Good abstraction expertise and problem-solving potential.
• Desire shall be given to candidates who don’t require relocation to the San Jose, CA space. 

Further Data

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