Senior Product Development Engineer

Molex is seeking an experienced mechanical Senior Product Development Engineer to design our industry‑leading high‑speed connector and cable systems for our big data and hyperscale customers. These creative, high‑tech, leading‑edge components are critical for the data superhighways we use every day to change the world. Here at Molex, we are leading the industry with our smart data solutions to solve our customers’ toughest challenges.

In this highly visible engineering position, you will join a team of professionals who are passionate about delivering the best products in the world to the market.

Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical.

As a Senior Product Development Engineer
, you will be responsible for designing, modeling, analyzing, and characterizing high‑speed connectors, cables, and systems within our Copper Solutions IO enterprise division team. In this role you will provide technical expertise in connector and cable design for the exponentially growing data storage systems and telecommunications market. This is a dynamic group of highly skilled professionals that will provide an opportunity for constant learning and innovation.

You will lead projects from idea to high‑volume production. These new products drive the industry and make a big impact on our customers and their products. The successful applicant will have the ability to appropriately plan and see assignments through to completion with minimal direction, provide leadership to other team members, develop timing, meet project schedules, manage risks, accurately quote design, and systematically solve problems of a complex scope.

The primary location for this position is the Arkansas Design Center – Molex offers a very flexible work environment to suit our talent needs.

• Be a team member in a global organization designing and developing leading edge new products and components for the high‑speed cable and connector industry.
• Interface with professional cross‑functional team members in our signal integrity team, manufacturing integration team, program management, sales organization, state‑of‑the‑art test laboratories, high‑tech R&D model shop, manufacturing and senior leadership teams.
• Design and develop 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, HBA servers, and RAID.
• Collaborate to develop cost‑competitive and creative designs with the manufacturing and signal integrity team that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high‑performance market requirements.
• Develop product and application specifications 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.
• Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team.
• Create relationships with senior leadership, cross‑functional team members and peers through team‑building activities and growth opportunities operating as One Molex Team.
• Help lead the organization in identification, evaluation, and implementation of new technologies and methodologies to enable next‑generation products, improve costs and quality, as well as improve New Product Development (NPD) engineering processes.
• Provide leadership, support, and guide less experienced team members on multiple NPD projects.
• Work with marketing and external customers to help define new project opportunities and strategize on overall design.
• Provide application and technical support to consolidate inputs from Marketing, customers, and external consultants into product concepts and detailed requirements.
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