Sr. Product Design Engineer
Listed on 2026-02-06
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Engineering
Product Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists, Mechanical Engineer
Overview
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 Sr. 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 ideas 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 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 Lisle Design Center in Chicago area.
What You Will Do- 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 signal integrity, and manufacturing team that are efficient at manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements.
- Develop product and application specifications documents for testing that meet our customer requirements.
- 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, quality and New Product Development (NPD) processes.
- Provide leadership, support, and guide less experienced team members on multiple NPD projects.
- Responsible for follow-up, documentation, publishing, and expediting all action items of a new product program.
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in mechanical product design and development with proven technical leadership
- Experience creating prototypes and simulations
- Expert use of Tolerance Analyses
- Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Design experience with products manufactured using some of the following processes: progressive die stamping, injection molding, die casting and insert molding
- Experience with GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
- Experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems
- 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
- Good understanding and practical knowledge of Six Sigma quality development…
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