Senior System Architect

Position: Senior System Architect - United States
Location(s):
Austin, Texas | Denver, Colorado | Fremont, California | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Houston, Texas | Lisle, Illinois Company:
Molex Career Field:
Marketing Job Number: 195810

Apply:  Job We are expanding our Copper Solutions Business Unit and seeking a System Architect to join our Enterprise Products team. This role is suited to a technically strong, commercially aware professional who can influence customer architecture decisions, shape product strategy, and strengthen Molex’s long-term advantage in high-speed copper interconnect solutions.

The position operates at the intersection of customer systems architecture, product development, and market strategy. It requires early customer engagement, long-term thinking, and the ability to translate technical and market insight into sustainable growth across enterprise data center ecosystems.

Our Team At Molex, we create connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With presence in more than 40 countries, we offer a complete range of connectivity products, services, and solutions across various industries, including data communications, medical, industrial, automotive, and consumer electronics.

Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team develops connectivity solutions for telecommunications, cloud, hyperscale, data center, and storage platforms. We continue to innovate to meet the needs of next-generation markets.

As part of the Molex CTO organization, you will evaluate how emerging interconnect technologies can be successfully integrated into advanced computing systems. Your work will help shape technology investments, reference architectures, and future product roadmaps.

What You Will Do Serve as a senior technical and architectural resource for high-speed enterprise copper interconnect solutions, engaging customers during early architecture definition, system trade studies, and development cycles when design decisions have the greatest long-term impact.

Communicate Molex’s advantages across next-generation copper technologies by connecting performance, manufacturability, scalability, and total system value to evolving cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise data center applications.

Turn customer insight into action by gathering and prioritizing voice-of-customer (VOC) input, then partnering with Product Management and Engineering to guide product platforms and technology roadmaps.

Identify new opportunities by engaging strategic customers, building technical relationships, and positioning Molex early in customer architecture decisions.

Maintain a broad understanding of the enterprise and hyperscale ecosystem—including customer roadmaps, application trends, competitive activity, and technology inflection points that can guide strategic decisions.

Represent Molex as a technical thought partner at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical forums, strengthening Molex’s presence in the enterprise data center community.

What You Can Expect Technical ownership of future connectivity architectures.

Collaboration with silicon partners and internal product teams.

Access to advanced simulation, measurement, and prototyping capabilities.

Opportunities to evaluate early-stage technologies and influence product decisions.

Broad visibility across the CTO organization, engineering teams, and business units.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Significant experience in hardware design, systems architecture, or a related field for high-performance systems.

Experience in a customer-facing technical role, such as engineering, field applications engineering, technical account management, or a comparable…