Field Application Engineer- Data Center/Enterprise

About the role

Molex is seeking a Field Application Engineer (FAE) to lead, promote, and resolve technical and engineering related barriers in designing Molex connectors, cables, and solutions into Infotech customers. Key responsibilities include driving technical engagements, uncovering new opportunities, and developing strong relationships with customer engineering.

Responsibilities

• Support customer engineering contacts and Molex sales team to secure new design wins and a convertible Salesforce pipeline leading to profitable year-over-year growth.
• Establish strategic and differentiated technical relationships with key engineering and SI contacts at the customer.
• Work closely with customer development/process/reliability engineers to resolve technical issues for design-in of high-speed IOs, backplane, BTB, storage connectors, and other copper solutions.
• Provide innovative solutions to customer application opportunities using the broad portfolio of Molex offerings and assist the Account Management team in proposing these solutions.
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration with other Molex FAEs in the Infotech/Datacom space.
• Communication and alignment with other functional groups internal to Molex - Product Management, Global Sales counterparts, Advanced Development, Signal Integrity.
• Make recommendations for improvement of interconnect systems and solutions, resolving customer potential or current issues.
• Aid Product Marketing in providing insights on competition solutions reviews, customer systems and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical, Computer Science, Physics or related field
• 3+ years relevant engineering experience within the electronics industry
• Experience directly interfacing with customers
• Experience in managing and leading projects, dynamically prioritizing assignments, and working independently

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical, Computer Science, Physics or related field
• 5+ years’ experience in the area of designing, qualifying, and/or supporting high-speed electrical interconnects and solutions
• Solid understanding of various connectors/cables/solutions manufacturing processes
• Understanding of statistical approach in problem solving, SPC and other quality tools
• Well versed in 2D/3D CAD design tools (NX preferred)
• Understanding of chassis level design

Pay

$150,000 - $170,000 per year

Schedule

Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Who We Are

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, cloud, data center and storage applications.