Principal Product Design Engineer - Enterprise Copper Solutions

About the role

The Principal Engineer at Molex will play a critical role on the team, enabling partnerships with customers, focusing on long-term planning for designs, delegating tasks, and handling advanced, custom technology challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of cutting-edge next-generation products and components for the high-speed cable and connector market.
• Partner with customers, vendors, marketing, and sales personnel, and other engineering areas during the pre-production stages of new products.
• Create original ideas for new products/solutions and develop them into practical and economical models through feasibility studies.
• Lead the engineering design evaluation and design proposal to the customer.
• Build prototype samples and perform validation.
• Provide technical support to the Operations team including Quality and Production for efficiency improvement and safe launch.
• Resolve product-related issues to closure and manage the design change process.
• Maintain a system-level understanding of the customer application and the product design/concept necessary for providing a solution to the customers' expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• At least 15 years in the connector industry.
• Expertise in contact physics.
• Expertise in providing technical direction and coaching to a design team.
• Design expertise in various board launch and wire termination technologies.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge in high-density board termination rework process.
• Experience in NX and TeamCenter.
• Geometric dimensioning and tolerance.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Six Sigma training/certification.
• Experience working with customers in the data storage market.

Pay

$150,000 - $200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Retirement
• Paid Vacation/Time Off
• Education Assistance
• Infertility Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.