Test Engineer

About the role

As a Test Engineer in Molex’s Rochester Hills Reliability Lab, you will own hands-on product validation work from requirements review and test planning through execution, analysis, and final reporting. This role requires direct work with equipment, fixtures, samples, instrumentation, and active tests in a technically demanding lab environment. The position offers varied, meaningful work and the opportunity to collaborate with experienced technicians and engineers while influencing product quality. You will solve practical technical challenges, continue building your skills, and take ownership of work from planning through results reporting. Priorities and test conditions may change, creating opportunities to learn, adapt, and make a visible impact.

The Rochester Hills Reliability Lab partners with technicians, engineers, project teams, and customers to generate accurate, traceable test results that support product decisions. The team values practical technical judgment, safe work, clear communication, and dependable execution.

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Responsibilities

• Review specifications, drawings, procedures, and requirements; translate them into clear validation and reliability test plans.
• Plan and execute environmental, mechanical, electrical, and other product tests using appropriate samples, fixtures, instruments, and data-collection methods.
• Build, verify, and monitor test setups; troubleshoot equipment, setup, sample, and data issues.
• Analyze results for accuracy, trends, failures, and compliance with requirements; investigate failures and develop practical technical conclusions.
• Write accurate, concise technical reports and present results to engineering teams and customers.
• Own multiple assignments, communicate validation schedule and evaluate risks early, and follow work from initial setup through final report.
• Improve test methods, fixtures, work instructions, data quality, and lab efficiency while maintaining safety and traceability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Four (4) years or more test/validation engineering experience.
• Experience with product testing, validation, reliability, laboratory work, or a related technical field.
• Working knowledge of environmental, mechanical, or electrical validation testing and applicable industry standards.
• Experience with environmental, electrical, and mechanical test equipment and associated data interpretation (environmental chambers, vibration shakers, ohmmeters, data acquisition, force testers).
• Experience developing test setups, executing tests, collecting and analyzing data, troubleshooting issues, and documenting results.

Qualifications

• Project management experience, including planning, scheduling, risk tracking, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Experience in testing connectors, terminals, cable assemblies, electronics, electromechanical products, or automotive components.
• Experience with validating test equipment or methods through measurement system analysis (MSA), correlation, repeatability, or round-robin studies.
• Experience using instrumentation, data acquisition, automation, or test software to improve lab processes.
• Experience with facilitating PCB design to product prints.
• Expertise in NVH or vibration testing utilizing Electro-Dynamic shakers.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (ADD), and disability coverage
• Retirement plan
• Paid vacation and time off
• Educational assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance
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