at Molex Inc in Lisle, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Your Job
As a Product Design Engineer, you will be responsible to design, model, analyze, characterize high-speed connectors, cables, and systems within our Copper Solutions enterprise division team. In this role you will provide technical expertise in connector, cable design for the exponentially growing data storage systems and telecommunications market.
This is a dynamic group of highly skilled professionals that will provide an opportunity for constant learning and innovation. This role will be engaged in projects from idea to high volume production. These new products drive the industry making a big impact on our customers and their products.
The successful applicant will have the ability to appropriately plan and see assignments through to completion with minimal direction, develop timing, meet project schedules, manage risks, accurately quote design, and systematically solve problems.
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.
You will be interfacing with professional 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
Develop and validate 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.
Collaborating 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 and general market expectations
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 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 and quality, as well as improve New Product Development (NPD) engineering processes.
Work with marketing and external customers to help define new project opportunities and strategize on overall design.
Work with quality and external suppliers to help ensure product requirements are met.
Collaborate closely and directly with customer engineering during product development lifecycle.
Provide application and technical support to consolidate inputs from Marketing, customers, and external consultants into product concepts and detailed requirements.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
5+ years of experience in Product Design Engineering in electronic components
Experience with welding, stamping, plating, or plastic injection molding/insert molding, and connector and cable harness assembly
Knowledge in developing engineering documentation including DFMEAs
Experience with Tolerance Analysis studies
Working knowledge in Data Analysis, preferably using Excel, Minitab, and/or Power BI
Proficiency in CAD, preferably in NX, Team Center
What Will Put You Ahead
Six Sigma training/certification
Experience designing high-speed interfaces, cable and board mount connectors
Twinax termination, PCB surface mount and compression technologies
Design Board launches (EON, SMT, compression, etc.)
High Density Board termination rework process
Experience with DVP testing
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to... For full info follow application link.
