Data Engineering Intern — SQL, Python & API Focus

Western Digital Corporation; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 17,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital Corporation in Malaysia is seeking a Data Engineering Intern to support our engineering operations team. This role covers schema design, data ingestion, API interfaces, template generation logic, and reporting dashboards across relational, time-series, and vector data.

Essential duties include designing database schemas for automation, building ETL pipelines, creating basic APIs, mapping templates, and developing dashboards for engineering metrics.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• Familiar with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with Python for data handling and transformation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist in schema design and documentation for an automation system supporting engineering test operations.
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for data ingestion and transformation tasks.
• Build basic API interfaces for data access and integration with engineering platforms.
• Implement template parameter mapping and generation logic using templating frameworks.
• Support reporting and dashboarding development for engineering metrics.

Skills

SQL fundamentals

Python for data handling

REST API concepts

ETL design basics

Templating frameworks

Research & problem solving

SSH / remote access

Git

Education

Pursuing Bachelor’s degree (CS/CE/SE/Data Eng)

Tools

Pandas

Polars

Git

Job description

Western Digital Corporation in Malaysia is seeking a Data Engineering Intern to support our engineering operations team. This role covers schema design, data ingestion, API interfaces, template generation logic, and reporting dashboards across relational, time-series, and vector data.

Essential duties include designing database schemas for automation, building ETL pipelines, creating basic APIs, mapping templates, and developing dashboards for engineering metrics.