Principal Product Design Engineer - Enterprise Copper Solutions

Overview

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Our Enterprise Solutions business customizes high-speed connectors, cables, and systems within our Datacom Specialty Solutions Division. The Principal Engineer at Molex will play a critical role on our team. With expertise in cable and connector design, this person will enable us to partner closely with the customer, focus on long term planning for our designs, delegate tasks and handle the most difficult challenges with advanced, custom technology.

In this role, the Principal Engineer will be leading technical design direction to others on board mount and cable mount connector and cable harness design for the exponentially growing data storage systems and telecommunications market. This engineer will have the vision and strategy driving the design and documentation of new products, from market definition through production and release. This engineer will conceive original ideas for new products/solutions and develop them into practical and economical models.

The Principal Engineer will determine specifications, perform engineering analysis, make preliminary sketches and designs, and coordinate support operations (such as fabrication of engineering samples and testing).

• Lead the design and development of cutting new next generation products and components for the high-speed cable and connectors
• Partner with customers, vendors, marketing and sales personnel, and other engineering areas during the pre-production stages of new products
• Develop and validate new interconnect products, including high speed connectors, connector cable assemblies, and miscellaneous related mechanical hardware for datacom and telecom applications such as hubs, servers, switches, routers
• 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
• Build a deep understanding of the market and customer needs by fostering a connection between the business engineering teams and the customer engineering teams
• Maintain a system level understanding of the customer application and the product design/concept necessary for providing a solution to the customers' expectations

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
• At least 15 years in the connector industry
• Expertise in contact physics
• Experience leading new product design efforts
• Expertise in providing technical direction and coaching to a design team
• Design expertise in various board launch and wire termination technologies
• Working knowledge in high density board termination rework process

• Six Sigma training/certification
• Experience working with customers in the data storage market
• Experience in NX and Team Center
• Geometric dimensioning and tolerance

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