Equipment Development Engineering Intern, AI

Seagate Technology; Singapore; On-site; SGD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Seagate Technology is offering an internship in the Equipment Development Engineering group in Singapore. You will collaborate with data scientists to define AI challenges, build dashboards for equipment development, and apply advanced AI/ML techniques to improve manufacturing insights.

The role focuses on scalable data and AI systems, time-series modeling for sensor data, and producing production-ready analytics within a challenging, high-tech manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Designing and developing ML dashboards for equipment development, including image/video AI analytics and LLM chatbots.
• Fine-tune and optimize for performance, scalability and reliability within the equipment development domain.

Responsibilities

• Work with data scientists to formulate AI problems for manufacturing processes and capacity planning controls.
• Apply time series foundations for machine sensor anomaly detection and RCA problems; enable data-driven, resilient decisions.

Job description

About Our Group

The Equipment Development Engineering group (EDE) of Seagate Technology is expanding the team! We welcome aspiring Automation Alchemist Enthusiasts to check out this awesome opportunity!

About Our Group

The Equipment Development Engineering group (EDE) of Seagate Technology is expanding the team! We welcome aspiring Automation Alchemist Enthusiasts to check out this awesome opportunity! Our vision is to innovate and develop advanced, intelligent automated manufacturing equipment solutions that can sense, analyze, and make smart decisions by themselves. The EDE is a fully integrated equipment development team; we design and develop precision and fully automated assembly equipment and vision inspection machines. The team is made up of a strongly cohesive high performing team of design talents with a diversity of talents specialized in mechanical, embedded systems, electrical, software, and vision disciplines. We strive to constantly incorporate IIOT, AI, machine learning image, and data analytics solutions into all our development, enabling our equipment to realize factory smart intelligence, thus creating a high-tech future-ready plant. We seek dedicated, motivated, and creative talented teammates, who take up the new automation directives to provide turnkey solutions, integrating functionality, automation & intelligence for Drive Assembly, Drive Test, Heads, Media Manufacture Automation & Enterprise Data Solutions. Many of our designs have won a variety of innovation awards, and patents on both the Company and International levels. We welcome any interested candidates that possess this mindset to embark on this exciting journey in challenging the future roadmaps.

About The Role - You Will

• Work closely with data scientist mentors to formulate business and engineering challenges as well‑defined AI problems, developing anomaly detection (AD) and root cause analysis (RCA) solutions for complex manufacturing processes and capacity planning controls
• Apply advanced data science techniques—including time series foundation models for machine sensor AD problems, causal AI for RCA problems, and AI-driven optimization and reasoning of actionable parameters—to accurately model manufacturing behavior and enable data driven, resilient operational decision making
• Design and implement scalable data and AI systems for large‑scale manufacturing datasets, leveraging Python, advanced AI/ML modeling, and enterprise analytics platforms to deliver reliable, production‑ready insights in real operating environments

About You

• To assist in designing and developing machine learning dashboards, tailored for equipment development as in image & video AI analytics and Large Language Model Chatbot.
• Perform fine tuning and optimization for performance scalability, and reliability within the equipment development domain.

Your Experience Includes

• Self-motivated and process strong learning towards new technology and skillsets
• A positive mindset with a can‑do attitude to challenge the impossible
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Able to effectively work independently.
• Able to commit full internship from Jan to June

Location

Our Woodlands site is one of the largest electronics manufacturing sites in Singapore, housing our recording media operations. Spread over three sites, it is easily accessible via bus or from the MRT Station, with many employees taking mass transportation to work. Here at work, you can enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks at our onsite canteen and coffee shop. We offer a range of facilities including an in‑house gym and dance studio, as well as after‑work badminton and table tennis competitions. On‑site celebrations and community volunteer opportunities also abound.

Location: Woodlands, Singapore, W2

Travel: None