NPI Advanced Automation Engineer

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales.

We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

The Advanced Automation Engineer will serve as a primary technical interface between Amphenol and customers developing automated or semi-automated systems for HSIO Overpass cable installation. This role will focus heavily on understanding customer automation requirements, identifying installation and process challenges, developing practical automation solutions, and driving technical issues to resolution.

The role will work closely with customer engineering, automation, manufacturing, and operations teams to evaluate applications, troubleshoot automation problems, develop proof-of-concept solutions, and recommend improvements to product design, tooling, fixtures, equipment, and installation processes. Internally, the engineer will connect customer requirements with product development, NPI, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and ready for production.

The successful candidate will be a hands‑on problem solver who is comfortable working directly with customers, leading technical discussions, troubleshooting complex automation issues, and converting customer challenges into actionable engineering solutions.

• Serve as a primary customer‑facing technical resource for automation, installation, handling, and manufacturability of HSIO Overpass cable solutions.
• Build strong technical relationships with customer engineering, automation, manufacturing, and operations teams.
• Engage directly with customers to understand automation requirements, installation challenges, production objectives, and system‑level constraints.
• Lead customer discussions and technical reviews to identify automation opportunities, risks, and potential solutions.
• Act as the liaison between customer engineering teams and Amphenol product development, NPI, process engineering, quality, and operations.
• Own and drive automation‑related customer issues from problem identification through root‑cause analysis, corrective action, validation, and closure.
• Troubleshoot difficult automation and installation problems involving cable handling, routing, insertion, retention, orientation, fixturing, tooling, vision, force control, and product variation.
• Quickly assess customer automation failures and determine whether the root cause is related to product design, tooling, equipment, process parameters, controls, handling, or operator interaction.
• Develop practical, data‑driven solutions to improve automation performance, repeatability, cycle time, yield, quality, and reliability.
• Support customers during automation trials, equipment development, proof‑of‑concept builds, system integration, and production launch.
• Participate in customer on‑site trials and provide hands‑on technical support during automation development and implementation.
• Review customer automation concepts and provide recommendations to improve compatibility with HSIO Overpass products.
• Conduct design‑for‑automation reviews for Overpass cable and interconnect…