Principal Product Design Engineer

About the role

Molex is seeking an experienced Principal Product Design Engineer to join our Copper Solutions enterprise team. This role will lead projects from ideas to high volume production, designing high-speed connectors, cables, and interconnect systems for the rapidly growing AI datacenter, cloud computing, and telecom industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the organization in identification, evaluation, and implementation of new technologies and methodologies to enable next generation products, improve costs, quality, and New Product Development (NPD) processes.
• Design and develop leading edge new products and components for the high-speed cable and connector industry, including high-speed connectors, connector cable assemblies, and other interconnect products.
• Interface with professional cross-functional team members in areas such as signal integrity, manufacturing integration, program management, sales organization, test laboratory, high tech R&D model shop, and senior leadership teams.
• Collaborate to develop cost competitive and creative designs with signal integrity, and manufacturing teams that are efficient at manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements.
• Generate novel intellectual property (IP) related to new technology development.
• Provide guidance and problem-solving skills to related groups within Molex, acting as subject matter expert where appropriate.
• Create relationships with senior leadership, cross-functional team members, and peers through team building activities and growth opportunities, operating as One Molex Team.
• Develop product and application specification documents for testing that meet our customer requirements and general market expectations.
• Present concepts and detailed requirements internally and to customers to obtain support for development of major new products.
• Follow all product development steps from concept inception to high-quantity production.
• Retain responsibility for follow-up, documentation, publishing, and expediting all action items of a new product program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field
• At least 10 years of experience in electro-mechanical product design and development with proven technical leadership
• Experience with product development for electronics industries
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Expert use of Tolerance Analyses
• Experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems
• Design experience with products manufactured using some or all of the following processes: progressive die stamping, injection molding, die casting and insert molding
• Experience with new technology development

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or other related engineering field
• Siemens NX experience
• Design experience with high-speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of Six Sigma quality development tools and principles (DOE, FMEA, etc.)
• Understanding and application of sound project management techniques managing projects to timelines, due dates and deadlines
• Experience with formal research and development (in academia or industry)

Skills

• A sincere drive for continuous learning and application of new knowledge
• The ability to plan and execute projects with minimal direction
• A demonstrated capacity for complex problem-solving
• Competence in communicating technical information to diverse (including non-technical) audiences
• An eager attitude towards tackling new and unfamiliar challenges

Benefits

This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.