Product Design Engineer

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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.

Molex is seeking an experienced Product Design Engineer to join our Copper Solutions I/O team responsible for the design of our industry leading high-speed connector and cable systems for exponentially growing data storage systems, telecommunication and hyperscale customers. This is a dynamic group of highly skilled professionals that will provide an opportunity for constant learning and innovation. This role will be leading projects from idea to high volume production.

These creative, high-tech leading-edge components are critical for the data superhighways existence we use every day changing the world.

The primary location for this position is the Lisle 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.
• 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 RAIDS.
• Interface with 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Follow all product development steps from concept inception, refinement of detailed product design, supply tooling group models and drawings for quoting and tool build.
• Responsible for follow-up, documentation, publishing, and expediting all action items of a new product program.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience in mechanical design from initial concept through production
• Experience creating prototypes and simulations
• Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) within industry
• Experience with GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) and concepts within industry
• Experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems in industry
• Work experience with plastic injection molding, sheet metal, and other materials
• Desire to learn, be challenged and interact in a cross functional team environment

• Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or other related engineering field
• Siemens NX experience
• Design experience with high speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products
• Design experience with products manufactured utilizing electroplating and automated assembly
• Knowledge of regulatory agency testing requirements
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of Six Sigma quality development tools and principles (DOE, FMEA, etc.)
• Understanding and application of sound project management techniques managing projects to timelines, due dates and deadlines
• Design experience with products manufactured using some of the following processes: progressive die stamping, injection molding, die casting and insert molding

For this role, we anticipate paying $85,000-$110,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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