Junior Product Engineer

Junior Product Engineer

The Junior Product Engineer serves as a key technical interface between customers, sales, and internal engineering and product management teams for electrical connectors and cable assemblies. This role focuses on understanding customer needs, defining product requirements, providing technical and sales support, product selection assistance, and ensuring clear communication to and from our global teams to support successful customer design in's.

Amphenol Industrial Operations, headquartered in Endicott, New York with global manufacturing, sales and marketing locations, specializes in delivering a comprehensive range of high-reliability power and signal connectors along with interconnection systems designed specifically for industrial applications. Our solutions cater to diverse industrial sectors such as alternative energy, power generation and storage, rail and mass transit, process control, automotive manufacturing, heavy equipment, wireless base stations, and petrochemical industries.

Our product portfolio encompasses power interconnects utilizing RADSOK® contact technology, ruggedized military derivative commercial cylindrical connectors such as AC Threaded (SAE AS50151 style), PT (MIL-DTL-26482 style) and GT reverse bayonet style, assemblies and harnesses using these and other industry standard interconnect. With a dedicated team of over 900 skilled professionals and certifications including ISO
9001 and IATF 16949, Amphenol Industrial Operations consistently meets the highest standards of quality and performance.

Amphenol Industrial Operations proudly operates as a business unit of Amphenol Corporation, headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Customer Engagement & Requirements Definition
• Quoting & Technical Sales Support
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Standard Product Development Support
• Quality & Issue Resolution

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• 0–2 years of experience in engineering, applications engineering, or technical sales (internships included)
• Basic understanding of electrical systems (signal, power, shielding, grounding concepts)
• Familiarity with connectors, wire types, cable assemblies, and harnessing preferred
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications
• Comfortable working with BOMs, product specs, and cost drivers
• Basic CAD familiarity is helpful but not required
• Familiarity with ERP/PLM systems
• Strong communication skills (especially explaining technical concepts to non-engineers)
• Customer-focused mindset with strong listening and clarification skills
• Ability to organize and document requirements clearly and accurately
• Strong coordination and project tracking abilities
• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
• Flexibility to work across global time zones as required

Physical/Environmental Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, sit, stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.

Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time.

Diversity and Inclusion At Amphenol, we aim to create an inclusive working environment where all employees are respected and treated equally regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, religion or age. Our business spans the globe and our facilities reflect the diversity of our geographic footprint. We hire local talent to run our facilities because we believe they have the deepest understanding of their respective countries, cultures and employees.

This diversity of our workforce and local knowhow is a key pillar of our continued success. Even though our sales and manufacturing capabilities are global, we do not impose a standardized global approach upon our businesses. Rather, Amphenol embraces a common global culture that encourages multiculturalism, agility, local empowerment and execution. We embrace diverse perspectives as we believe they lead to better long-term outcomes for our employees and business.

At Amphenol, we work to create an inclusive working environment where all employees are respected and treated equally regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, religion or age. This message is emphasized from the top of our organization down to each of our employees. Of our total employees worldwide, we are proud that more than half are women. Given the importance of diversity as part of our business strategy, improving the gender diversity of our management is a key objective for Amphenol.