Sr. Design Engineering Manager, Enterprise Copper Solutions

The Senior Product Design Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the global Product Design Engineering organization supporting Molex's Enterprise Copper Solutions portfolio. This leader will drive product architecture, design execution, technical excellence, talent development, and customer-focused innovation across high-speed connector, cable assembly, and interconnect platforms serving AI, cloud, networking, storage, and compute markets.

The role partners closely with Advanced Development, Development Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Reliability, Signal Integrity, and Program Management teams to deliver new products from concept through commercialization while ensuring alignment with CSBU business strategy and customer roadmaps. The position plays a key leadership role in translating emerging technologies into scalable, manufacturable, and market-leading solutions.

• Lead and develop a global team of Product Design Engineers supporting Enterprise CSBU products.
• Establish technical direction, engineering standards, and best practices for product design.
• Build organizational capability through talent acquisition, mentoring, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Create a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive engineering resource planning and portfolio prioritization.
• Own design engineering execution across connector and cable product families.
• Ensure designs meet customer, performance, cost, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
• Drive concept generation, feasibility studies, risk assessments, and design validation.
• Champion Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Reliability (DFR) methodologies.
• Support development of next-generation Enterprise connectivity platforms including:
• High-speed backplane connectors
• Near-package connectivity (NPC)
• Chip-package connectivity (CPC)
• H igh-density cable assemblies
• 224G and 448G interconnect solutions
• Partner with Advanced Development on technology incubation and transition to product platforms.
• Support strategic customer engagements with hyperscalers, networking OEMs, AI infrastructure providers, and semiconductor companies.
• Represent Molex as a senior technical leader during customer interactions.
• Partner with Product Management to align product roadmaps and engineering priorities.
• Collaborate with Development Engineering, NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Reliability, Quality, and Supply Chain teams.
• Facilitate effective design transfers from concept through launch.
• Drive alignment between regional engineering teams in North America and Asia.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that improve speed-to-market and development effectiveness.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of engineering experience in product development.
• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience managing technical teams.
• Proven experience with electro-mechanical product design.
• Strong understanding of:
  Connector and cable assembly development, tolerance analysis/design for complex assemblies, product lifecycle management, design verification methodologies, manufacturing processes, reliability engineering, and signal integrity.
• Experience leading cross-functional global development teams.

• Experience in data center, AI, cloud, networking, or server infrastructure markets.
• Knowledge of high-speed interconnect technologies operating at 112G, 224G, and 448G signaling rates.
• Experience with customer-facing technical leadership.
• Familiarity with global…